Expert performers develop their extraordinary abilities through years and years of dedicated practice, improving step by step in a long, laborious process. There are no shortcuts.
中文：
杰出人物通過年復一年的刻意練習，在漫長而艱苦的過程中一步一步改進，終于練就了他們杰出的能力。沒有捷徑可走。

In the long run it is the ones who practice more who prevail, not the ones who had some initial advantage in intelligence or some other talent.
中文：
從長遠來看，占上風的是那些練習更勤奮的人，而不是那些一開始在智商或者其他才華方面稍有優勢的人。

Even those who don’t reach the frontiers of a field can still enjoy the challenge of taking control of their own lives and improving their abilities. A world in which deliberate practice is a normal part of life would be one in which people had more volition and satisfaction.
中文：
即使是那些沒能抵達某個行業或領域最前沿的人們，依然可以樂享掌握自己人生命運和提高能力水平的挑戰。當刻意練習成為人生中的常態時，人們便會擁有更多的自愿選擇和滿足感。

A major difference between the deliberate-practice approach and the traditional approach to learning lies with the emphasis placed on skills versus knowledge-what you can do versus what you know. Deliberate practice is all about the skills. You pick up the necessary knowledge in order to develop the skills; knowledge should never be an end in itself.
中文：
在學習上，刻意練習的方法與傳統方法之間的重要差別是對技能與知識的著重點不同，也就是說，一個強調你可以做什么，另一個強調你知道什么。刻意練習全都是關于技能的。你選擇學習必要的知識，是為了培育技能；知識本身絕不是學習的目的。

You don’t build mental representations by thinking about something; you build them by trying to do something, failing, revising, and trying again, over and over. When you’re done, not only have you developed an effective mental representation for the skill you are developing, but you have also absorbed a great deal of information connected with that skill.
中文：
你在思考某件事情的時候，不會創建心理表征；只有通過去做某件事情，失敗了之后調整方法，接著再去做，如此循環往復，才能創建心理表征。等你做完了，不僅為學習技能創建了心理表征，而且吸收了大量與那項技能相聯系的信息。