David Nicholls Quotes

It's important for people to realize I don't want to be the It guy. I want to crawl before I walk. I want to learn about things before I jump into them.

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.

What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won't be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

Slowly would be better than not at all.

He who treads softly goes far.

We must walk before we run.

Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.

Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

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

Practice makes the master.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

That which comes slow comes solid.

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes.

Not every move you make has to be a great leap

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.

I don't know if I'll ever be a master at anything, but I think that's a mistake for me personally. I don't know how much it's about the journey, but it's more about the process.

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.