Quotes About Mastery

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

A company gets better at the things it practices.

With my first album it was a little bit like I was practicing.

Once I got the Playstation I started practicing, because if I do something I want to do it right.

Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

With every album, I write above my ability, and my job as a guitarist is to catch up and be able to play it live. The thing about practicing is that once you master something, you don't have to remaster it. You just keep moving forward.

The confidence and the comfort level just comes with playing a lot and practicing. Obviously, the more you practice, the more you play, the more comfortable you get.

Practicing every day against good players, I think you'll improve every way imaginable.

I like practicing every day, you get better by practicing.

You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.

Good lawyering is usually cerebral and impersonally. You can convince a judge with a mastery of facts, detail, and precedent - not a story from the gut about how you feel a certain way.

Would I have done anything different? I might have put a golf club in my hand instead of a cue. I love watching those guys play. Every situation is different, everything - every shot - has to be so precise.

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

If you want to play at Arsenal you need to be top, top, you need precision.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

The first few seasons, I was just getting used to the Premier League.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

I'm a student of the game, and any time you take more reps in a game, it's going to prepare you more.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

If I have to use a body double, it means I'm not well prepared to do what I have to do.

Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.