57 Quotes by Barbara Oakley

If you protect your routine, eventually it will protect you.

The biggest lie ever is that practice makes perfect. Not true – practice makes you better.

The only way to walk a journey of a thousand miles is to take one step at a time.

It’s normal to sit down with a few negative feelings about beginning your work. It’s how you handle those feelings that matters.

We develop a passion for what we are good at. The mistake is thinking that if we aren’t good at something, we do not have and can never develop a passion for it.

Remember, research has shown that the more effort you put into recalling material, the deeper it embeds itself into your memory.

Procrastination is like addiction. It offers temporary excitement and relief from boring reality.

The trick to overwriting a habit is to look for the pressure point – your reaction to a cue. The only place you need to apply willpower is to change your reaction to the cue.

One of the single most important pieces of advice I can give you on dealing with procrastination is to ignore distractions!