Graeme Simsion Quotes

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

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.

I'm one of the guys that thinks you have to spend a lot of time at whatever your craft is in order to sustain it, and in order to get better at it.

A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't do the research and development. I didn't take it to the next level.

I have put in more than 10,000 hours perfecting my craft. And I am good at it.

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

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

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

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

What's really the driver of talent is not raw ability. It's not even just experience. It's what's called 'deliberate practice,' which is to say, if you do something a lot, you get really good at it.

With anything you do and you dedicate yourself to and you dedicate thousands and thousands of hours, eventually you're gonna get a little bit better at it unless there's some innate impairment preventing that.

Whatever it is you do, study it, learn the ins and outs of it, and really work on building your craft.

If you keep doing something over and over, you should get good at it.

If you're any good at all at what you do, you get better the more you do it.

Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won't be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.

Practice is the path of mastery.

Practice makes the master.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.