Jennifer Kowash > Jennifer's Quotes

“If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.”
― Lindsay Buckingham

“We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.”
― Edward De Bono, Six Thinking Hats

“You steadily grow into becoming your best as you choose to be accountable and accept responsibility for improvement.”
― Steve Shallenberger, Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders

“If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit.”
― Dale Ludwig

“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Was that life? Well then, once more!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master…

Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon.

But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra - A Book For All And None

“The sweet spot: that productive, uncomfortable terrain located just beyond our current abilities, where our reach exceeds our grasp. Deep practice is not simply about struggling; it's about seeking a particular struggle, which involves a cycle of distinct actions.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else

“Struggle is not an option: it's a biological requirement.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else

“Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else

“Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown

“to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else

“What you see and hear is a situation in which languages are less like apples — neat and discrete — and more like oatmeal. It's always been oatmeal in India, and all the varieties of oatmeal continue to merge, despite political pressures to name them as if they were marbles.”
― Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners

“Possible explanations for talented language learning fall into two general areas. One view says: What matters is a person's sense of mission and dedication to language learning. You don't need to describe high performers as biologically exceptional, because what they do is a product of practice. Anyone can become a foreign-language expert - even an adult. (...) The other view says: Something neurological is going on. We may not know exactly what the mechanisms are, but we can't explain exceptional outcomes fully through training or motivation.”
― Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners

“One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages