Tony Lema Quotes

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

I try to make the most of every minute I play.

For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

If you don't put out a shirt for eight months, that doesn't mean it took you eight months to make the shirt.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.