Twyla Tharp Quotes

The first time I baked, I failed a couple of times, and I made some mistakes and perhaps ended up with something inedible. Then I was a little bit more careful, and I learned how to do it right.

Skill to do comes of doing.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

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

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

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.

You get rid of the mistakes by playing hard.

You've got to do it in practice first.

The more mistakes you make, the more you learn.

Talent comes from experience and failure

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.

The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.

Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I've told you to make it. Twice. The first time you'll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments.

You only get better by playing.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.