Harry Houdini Quotes

Practice is the best of all instructors.

I learned to do things the way the old-timers did.

What one does easily, one does well.

Whatever you do, do it well.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

In many lines of wok, it isn't how much you do that counts, but how much you do well and how often you decide right.

The very essence of success is practice.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

Memories, priceless. Well not really priceless, but there you go!

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

The reason everybody is so amazed and enamored with me right now is because I have worked every angle, I have worked every formula, I have worked every equation, I have seen every club, I have seen every performance, I have seen every joke, I have studied, I have done my job. That's why I'm good. It's not because I got up one night and decided I wanted to tell some f - -ing jokes.

It's just the more you do it the better you get, or at least that's how I feel in my case. I think it's a combination of confidence and just having done it this long and just learning. I'm always learning. I'm still honing my craft.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.