Wynton Marsalis Quotes

I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

I was a good student in school.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football.

Work hard and never make excuses.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study.

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Please, children, do not leave school.