Alexandra Guarnaschelli Quotes

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.

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.

I'm always learning and getting better with my technique.

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

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.

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

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.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

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.

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.

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 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.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

We want perfection without practice. Yet everyone is harmed if no one is trained for the future.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

I love that idea of mastery.

I want to get better and better at my craft.

Scoring is probably something I need to work on.

I've always liked to learn how to do things - I'm a hobby person. So I'll learn something at a beginner's level, then usually move on to the next thing.