Chelsea Handler Quotes

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

I want to know everything there is to know about a specific area. And it's winning at that mastery that really drives me. I want to be best at something. I don't even know what 'this' is, but there's this inner drive to be the best.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

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

If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.

Never stop training, no matter what level you're at. Never, ever stop putting your talent under a microscope and asking, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah - I'm doing all this stuff right, but what's wrong with my acting?'

You can always improve as a player; there's never a time when you can say anything is perfect.

You have to continue to hone your craft.

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

Since I'm a professional, every day I try to become a better player.

It is all about the kind of experience you garner over the years, which tends to make a difference in the way you play at the top level.

I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.

My hands. I'm constantly working on my hands. I'm constantly working on my ground game and constantly trying not to get satisfied with where I'm at with my career and where I'm at as an athlete. I'm somewhat happy, but never satisfied.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these are people that have truly learned and mastered the choices that they have and how to deal with those choices over a very, very long period of training, so essentially what they're really doing is ruling out all the irrelevant choices and only zeroing in on the most relevant, useful choices at the moment.

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

Practice is the path of mastery.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.