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“Mediocrity is never a desirable destination....At least, not when practice might transform mediocrity to competence, or even skill.' ~ Napoleon Bonapart”
― Allison Pataki, The Queen's Fortune

“Doing something, and regularly, is by far the best way of increasing your chances of being good at it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As you can see from the following “top-down, bottom-upâ€� illustration, learning takes place in two ways. There is a bottom-up chunking process where practice and repetition can help you both build and strengthen each chunk, so you can easily gain access to it when needed. And there is a top-down “big pictureâ€� process that allows you to see where what you are learning fits in. Both processes are vital in gaining mastery over the material.”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“Let's talk now about practice and process. You practice technique to get your fingers where you want them to go. You practice theory to understand where they can go and why.

You play live and write songs. You practice that to bring the theory and the technique and create art with it. And you seek inspiration to make that art something that's meaningful to you and you can communicate to others.”
― Tom Morello

“Practice exaggerates talent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He needed to be willing to take risks. He needed to commit himself to going with his first instincts. That first instinct is the product of the subconscious brain, and he had honed his subconscious perception over thousands of practice shots and rounds of golf.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“Another study showed that humor appreciation also activates the dopamine-rich nucleus accumbens, as well as the brain stem region that produces dopamine, which explains the enjoyable aspect of humor. It also activates areas of the dorsal striatum, which suggests that there is something habitual about humor appreciation. It is something you can practice, something you can get better at. At the very least, you now have a scientific reason to watch funny videos on YouTube.”
― Alex Korb, The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time

“You can create new habits, all you need to do is stick to something you like. All it asks is consistency.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Things get clear when you do it every day. It's all right if you can't do it today. Do it tomorrow, and then the next day and then the day after.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“There is no shortcut to becoming a writer except by practice, practice, and practice. Grow great every day, without demanding anything in return.”
― Robi Aulia Abdi

“Practice leads to perfection and perfection leads to succession.”
― iamjensen

“Preach what you practice”
― Sandeep Sahajpal , The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“If you practice being Thoughtfully Fit, you’ll be prepared for whatever problems life throws your way. And while life won’t get easier—you’ll still have frustrating neighbors, annoying colleagues, bad news, and unwelcome adversity—it will feel easier because you prepared and trained.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“The mystical process of transformation occurs little by little during the daily practice of aligning with the Divine. This is the ritual purpose of sadhana - to merge with the Divine.”
― The Gypsy Priestess

“Being thoughtful can be both an internal practice and an external one. Internally, being thoughtful includes behaviors like careful consideration, thinking before speaking, and weighing your options. Externally, being thoughtful means you think about others, and their wants and needs, when acting. It’s this care and consideration that can show up in your daily life and your everyday behavior when you are Thoughtfully Fit.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Just because you went to a seminar about how to be a more efficient swimmer, your swim stroke won’t improve without practice. Likewise, a bike-riding video can’t improve your balance until you practice. And you certainly can’t wake up tomorrow and do an Ironman Triathlon if you haven’t been training.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“If you haven’t exercised in a while and you go to a strength class, would you grab twenty-pound dumbbells off the shelf? Probably not. They have lots of different weights for a reason. As with physical strength, the Thoughtfully Fit practice of Strength requires you to start small.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“So the question is: How long do you need to practice in order to achieve excellence? Extensive research, it turns out, has come up with a very specific answer to that question: from art to science and from board games to tennis, it has been found that a minimum of ten years is required to reach world-class status in any complex task.”
― Matthew Syed, Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success

“Always return to engaging your core, because you’ll need a strong core for all six Thoughtfully Fit practices. I’ll give you a strategy to build your core confidence, which you can use in any situation. It’s deceptively simple in concept and powerful in practice.
The core of being Thoughtfully Fit is three steps: Pause. Think. Act”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Agility asks us to override our knee-jerk tendency to fire back, to get angry, and to defend ourselves. When you work your core in Agility, you Pause, Think about what you want or need in the situation, and try to identify a more thoughtful and intentional course of Action. With practice, you can have the knee-jerk reactions without the jerk!”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“You might think that it would be easier for a player to go it alone. That, after all, is part of the Ben Hogan legend, and Hogan was one of the all-time greats. The legend has it that he worked by himself to perfect his swing, putting in countless hours of lonely practice to achieve near-perfection.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“Don't rely on getting easy questions. Practice for the hard ones.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“My daughter Josie was nine years old when she played basketball for the first time. She’d get the ball and hold it and pivot to the right, to the left, back to the right, but seemed paralyzed by indecision. She would think and think and think about what to do—pass or shoot—but never act. At some point, you have to take the shot.
Where in your life do you pivot and pivot, but never take the shot?
Maybe you need to have a tough conversation, and you’ve thought about it over and over again. You’ve identified how to start the conversation, and you’ve worked through all your talking points. But when you think you’re ready, you pivot. You decide that the situation isn’t so bad after all. You’re too afraid to have that conversation. What if I miss the shot? What if the ball is intercepted? What if the conversation doesn’t go well?
After you Pause and Think, you must Act. This is what will help you overcome obstacles and create the turning point. When you don’t Act, you don’t make progress.
Research on the highest-performing teams shows it’s better for leaders to make a decision and act quickly rather than wait until all circumstances are perfect.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Self mastering comes from persistent perpetual practice.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Success = (Learn + Observe + Practice) x Share”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Oftentimes, your Flexibility practice won’t be visible to someone else, as it may be just letting go and moving on. In those instances, that will be for your benefit. But finding a way to demonstrate empathy or compassion, as opposed to judgment or avoidance, can also help strengthen the relationship.
If you can’t accept and move on, can you get curious? Rather than making assumptions about what the other person is thinking or feeling, ask them. This can still feel like judgment, and so part of your job is to feel curious, not pretend or go through the motions. You need to try to move past your initial feelings and get to a place of curiosity and, ultimately, acceptance of what is.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Flexibility, like all the Thoughtfully Fit practices, is something you need to work on to improve. Start simple, such as with the outrageous dresser at the parent-teacher meeting or the glacially slow cashier at the convenience store. Find the places where things are none of your business and affect you the least, and use those as your training ground. You’ll be building your Flexibility muscles, so they’ll be ready in more challenging circumstances.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Develop the powers within yourself through persistent practice.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Strength is an internal practice that focuses on your ability to be in control. If you want to be an effective leader, whether in your home or professional life, first you need internal Strength.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“Practice, leads to perfection and perfection leads to succession.”
― iamjensen