Martha Graham Quotes

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

I was at a basketball camp when I was a kid and the lecturer used basketball spinning to teach us a lesson on never being satisfied with what you've accomplished. The lecturer talked about how the game of basketball was about learning to control the ball through dribbling and passing and shooting.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. 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.

I believe that we learn by practice.

Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

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

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

You only get better by playing.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

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

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

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 don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

To give your best is to receive the best.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.