Shannon Lee Quotes

Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing.

When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

You have to remember everything you've created. But then comes a moment when it's all automatic pilot, where it all comes together and you don't have to think about it any more.

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet.

I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

One works without thinking how to work.

The more you practice something, the easier it'll become.

In any sport, you're at your best when you're playing without thinking too much.

When I play guitar, it's automatic. I don't try to do something; I just do it. And it's already so ingrained in what I do, I don't think about it. I don't try to do something - I just do it. And the more I do it that way, the more I surprise myself. And if I surprise myself, that's the best thing.

I think the people that are best at something, they don't think about it much. That's the whole key to being good at anything.

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.

To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

Clarity proceeds Mastery!

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

Excellence in one area is the beginning of excellence in every area.

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.