Walter Hagen Quotes

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

We're playing at our level of ability.

I don't know how to play easy.

The biggest challenge to me is always technique.

Sometimes the things I do look effortless, but it's not like that. It's very difficult, but because of my style, I make it look easy.

Anything that's done correctly is easy.

People told me I made the game look easy and I didn't always look like I was trying my best, but I always was.

What one does easily, one does well.

Making things easy is hard.

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

Modeling isn't all that tough.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.