Martin Farquhar Tupper Quotes

You only get better by playing.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

The very essence of success is practice.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Learn by practice.

There is nothing like practice.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

With every look I can get and every defense I play against I get more experience.

When you play, you get an opportunity to hone your craft.

You've got to perfect your craft.

You get rid of the mistakes by playing hard.