Ninette de Valois Quotes

Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.

Practice makes permanent.

Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

I've played and I've been a student of the game.

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

We record Dream Theater shows and I'll sit on the bus and listen to my playing - what worked, what didn't. A lot of times it's embarrassing and humbling, but that's what you have to do to get better.

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

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

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

The more matches I play, the more confident I get.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

You only get better by playing.

Seems like my iron play gets a little better every year. Which makes sense - I've been working hard on things with my teacher, Jim McLean.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.