Martha Graham Quotes

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

The very essence of success is practice.

I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

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

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.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they become part of our existence. Before reaching that stage, however, you must practice and repeat. And if that's not enough, you must practice and repeat some more.

You have to practice until you die.

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.

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

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Practice makes permanent.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.

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.

Conte is correct - talent needs to be nurtured on a daily basis with hard work.

Every day in training, we will try to work to keep improving the things we can do and maintaining the levels we're at.

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

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.