“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

“Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”

“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours. ”