Matthew Syed famous quotes

Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing – rather, the effort put forth in producing the outcome.
-- Matthew Syed

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World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached.  Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.
-- Matthew Syed

#Class #World #Vivid

The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress.  Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.
-- Matthew Syed

#Motivational #Sports #Practice

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.
-- Matthew Syed

#Excellence #Doe #Concentration

Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure.  That is the essential paradox of expert performance.
-- Matthew Syed

#Progress #Essentials #Experts

When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.
-- Matthew Syed

#Soccer #Football #Passion

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.