Pietro Aretino Quotes

Talent comes from experience and failure

You only get better by playing.

I think he's got good potential, but he needs a lot of work.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.

Learn by practice.

There is nothing like practice.

I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

If I'm anywhere close to where I can hike or swim, that's my favourite thing to do.

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

The more you draw, the better you get.

I feel lucky. I feel blessed. If you get blessed with some ability, I think you have to work hard at it. Michael Jordan was a great basketball player, but he wasn't the best shooter, even though he had the skill, and he had to work and work at it.

I really like to hike. L.A. is a great place for that. And doing yoga a couple of times a week is a really big part of my regimen.

When you play, you get an opportunity to hone your craft.

You've got to perfect your craft.

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.

It's always great to get more reps.

Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.

Just play football. If you are a writer, you must write. It's the best way to practise. If I'm a pianist, I don't need to run in the forest for one hour or two hours to be a good pianist. I must play piano. So this is what we are doing all the time. Play football. Simple ideas.

I'll keep improving with more games.