Gail Godwin Quotes

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

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.

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.

Golf is so selfish - it's so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.

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

I want to get better and better at my craft.

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

Everything that I tried to act in my life, I put in the time and effort to try and get better at it.

Talent is important, but how one develops and nurtures it is even more so.

I try every day to become a better player - passing more to open the game - I try everything because you can always be better.

I'm going to continue to get better at the line.

I feel like I've been doing what I need to be doing to make me better at the game.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

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.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.

I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

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

I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

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 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.