Damien Chazelle Quotes

You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

It's funny that I love golf so much because I'm not usually drawn to things I'm not so good at. It's all about practice and working and not getting discouraged.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

You only get better by playing.

I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

You have to keep trying to get better.

Always it's like big challenge for me. Every point is a big challenge. So I do everything I can.

I like to grind and not think too much about the good stuff. I like to focus on the stuff I need to get better at.

Many alleged top players can and have still to learn.

Just as I am working hard to adjust to a new level, someone comes along and asks me to move up again. I'm not complaining about it; I just get on with trying to make sure I don't let anyone down. Training with England is just a different gravy again. Movement-wise, finishing-wise, you can learn such a lot from watching the very best in action.

What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won't be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.