Quotes About Mastery

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

I just want to be a complete professional quarterback, and that's going to take time.

So the truth is, if there's a lesson to be learned from mobile quarterbacks, it is deliver the ball from the pocket, which demands mastery of the data that is involved working in the pocket, which is, 'I know everything about everything.'

I think when you look at the quarterback position, and this mastery of the craft we talk about, it really is an advanced degree. It's like going to med school, or law school, or getting your PH.D. It really is that type of educational effort, on the field and off the field.

Everyone knows quarterback is a position where it takes a while to really start playing well.

I'm a research queen.

I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.

What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

I love performing on my own scores. I do it quite a lot.

Honestly, I feel nobody can drive a race car better than I can. Driving-wise, I feel like I can out-drive anybody.

I'm not racing through my division - I'm cleaning it out.

Rafael Nadal, I see no demons in him. None. Unless he picks up the racket with his right hand.

In England, it's always raining, and I feel like I'm expert in that field.

On every job you do, you've got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do - you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things - I don't think you necessarily learn them from other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table - mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

In order to become a complete driver I believe that rallying will give me extra bits, because of gravel, because of different characteristics.

Ram Sampath is a genius.

The Ramones were inspiring a lot of bands that couldn't master their instruments.

Great musicians, you don't just hear them, you feel them. When I listen to Randy Rhoads, I feel every note. I learned a lot from him.

You go out on the practice range, and something kind of clicks, and you start hitting the ball very crisply. And you're sure that you've found it, the holy grail - that all you have to do is hold your hand in a certain way. Then you go out on the golf course, and it's completely disappeared.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Gary Neville never seemed to know when he was beaten, and Ashley Cole never gets beaten.