Agnes de Mille Quotes

You've got to put in a lot of practice if you want to be good in something. You've got to do it the right way.

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

Dancers are made, not born.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

The real work is in the practice.

Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

Success is less about luck, and more about practice.

You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

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

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

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

I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

You only get better by playing.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

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.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

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.