Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

If you practice anything enough, you can be consistent.

Excellence is not a single act. You are what you repeatedly do.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know that if I didn't go running, I wouldn't go the next day either. It's not in human nature to take unnecessary burdens upon oneself, so one's body soon becomes disaccustomed. It mustn't do that. It's the same with writing. I write every day so that my mind doesn't become disaccustomed.

Once you understand what excellence is all about... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

Consistency is the DNA of mastery

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.

There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.

I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

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

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.