Cesar Cielo Quotes

I always try and be perfect in practice.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.

I have always tried to improve myself in every practice session. When it comes to playing and preparation, I am as disciplined and dedicated as anyone else.

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

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

I think one of the most important lessons that I've learned is to put your head down and work. Don't look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you're constantly working on it.

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

I was drawn to bakery and pastry. It's the same discipline you employ in dance - you take the instruction, and you keep on practicing, seeking perfection. You never achieve it, but you strive.

The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.

You should want to be the best at whatever your chosen field is.

You come out every single day, and you want to be perfect. When I mean 'perfect,' not mean a 'perfect player,' but you want to try to go through practice without drops.

Because I am of a generation and slightly old-fashioned, my bottom line belief is what you do is you rehearse and you work and you own it. Of course, you hone it during the first few performances but once you have it honed, not that you must ever assume it is perfect, part of the craft is being able to repeat that.

I've got to perfect my game. Keep working.

It's natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, 'You have to do it again and again and again.'

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

I just try to work on my craft. Try to be as complete a player as possible, and I've just been focusing on being a consistent player.

You practice how you play. I still believe that.