Quotes About Mastery

Because my master was this renaissance man, I wasn't just learning a fighting style, I was learning how kung fu permeates all aspects of life, from eating to healthy living to mental state.

I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.

It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.

With every rep, you're going to get better.

You try to learn as much as you can with each rep.

There are always things that I am looking to improve upon, but I think I am learning from every rep and filing those reps away.

On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.

To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films.

Now I've won everything in the game I'm just trying to repeat the success.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

I remember that when I was learning to play football, kicking a ball for example, I used to do it 300-400 times a day at least. There were moments when I got tired but I needed to do it repeatedly because if I wanted it to become a part of me, this was the process I needed to go through.

One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Repetition makes perfect.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

I think, in any sort of medium, repetition makes you better at your trade.

I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.

Repetitions - I think that's one of the best ways during the season to maintain something or get better at it, is just to do it over and over.

It's going to be hard to ever have a horse to replace Valegro. He is a professor. I think he read the dressage book and learnt it all before he ever did it.

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

You have to be, become, the musician who can't be replaced.

No one would call me a great cook, but over years of cooking, for me, confidence has replaced ambition.

Whenever you step on the ice, you need to be a student of the game and try to hone your craft. You're never going to play a perfect match, but you're always chasing that perfect game.

I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.