Kris Holden-Ried Quotes

You only get better by playing.

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

Whatever it is you do, study it, learn the ins and outs of it, and really work on building your craft.

It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

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.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

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

I want to get better and better at my craft.

You have to continue to hone your craft.

Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.

I'm one of the guys that thinks you have to spend a lot of time at whatever your craft is in order to sustain it, and in order to get better at it.

A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't do the research and development. I didn't take it to the next level.

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

The reason everybody is so amazed and enamored with me right now is because I have worked every angle, I have worked every formula, I have worked every equation, I have seen every club, I have seen every performance, I have seen every joke, I have studied, I have done my job. That's why I'm good. It's not because I got up one night and decided I wanted to tell some f - -ing jokes.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.