Twyla Tharp Quotes

To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

I think, for different types of things, more rehearsal is very important.

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.

You can't make a great play until you first do it in practice.

To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course.

Repetitions - I think that's one of the best ways during the season to maintain something or get better at it, is just to do it over and over.

You try to learn as much as you can with each rep.

There are so many things that I've just continued to get better at in my game.

When one goes to school, you don't have any idea of what you're going to learn. But as each day passes, you learn things. I believe sport is the same way. Some guys are born with a talent. But you have to nurture that talent and continue to learn.

It's always great to get more reps.

I've always enjoyed dancing, and I train myself in it. I try to hone my skills whenever I get the chance.

There's always things to get better at, and there's always stuff to learn when you come into training.