Ben Dolnick Quotes

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

The more you style, the better you get. Don't give up. At a certain point, the magic happens.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

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 make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.

I'm never going to be the best skater, but I feel like I'm getting better.

For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that's all part of life's journey.

I think it's very common that scientists or technical people have an artistic side. Sometimes they are very accomplished musicians. Sometimes they have very fine tastes according to art or design. And often, they've spent a big chunk of their childhood or they're growing-up years trying to get in very good at those activities.

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

Golf's not an easy game. You keep working at it and, sooner or later, something good will happen.

I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.

I was never the best player in the teams I played for. I always needed time for development.

Sometimes things don't come easy, and golf isn't an easy game.

I never think that I'm the best flicker, but I practice to learn new things every day.

A skill is something that you aren't inherently talented at and that isn't an effortless action, the way your thinking talents might be, but is something you can become excellent at nonetheless.

Every day I'm getting shaped and molded. Keepin' on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more I'm in it, the more I'm practicing and the more I'm advancing.

Some guys seem to jump right out and win tournaments, but for me, I've been the kind of player who is getting a bit better each year.

I'm a piano player and singer who can't play piano very well or sing very well. That isn't a recipe for success. I have to get better.

When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.

Here's a very simple, common sense idea - if you practice something more, you get better at it; if you can't complete everything you need to do, take more time.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.