Mercedes Ruehl Quotes

You don't go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build a foundation, and you want to build a foundation that's not going to crumble.

I turned out to be a very good cement-mixer.

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

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far.

I liked my father's work. But above all I liked the idea of doing something concrete and useful. Building a house is a metaphor that I like, it's at the core of my life philosophy: starting from the bottom and reaching the top.

That's what I've learned: you are always to improve whether you are a Hall of Fame quarterback or some rookie.

It's been fun to get out and work with a lot of coaches. I've broadened my knowledge.

You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.

I was not born with many technical skills. I had to improve and work.

It's a fast learning process if you want to be successful at the highest level.

Since I'm a professional, every day I try to become a better player.

I took after my father who was a bricklayer and used to build everything step by step, brick by brick.

When you build a house, you have to start from the floor. You have to start from the bottom, the defence, and then you fix the attack.

My calculus teacher would send me home every weekend with 400 problems to solve. At the time, I felt it was so strict and demanding, but now I realize that the workload instilled in me a sense of discipline, and showed me that even if I wasn't inherently skilled at something, I could be, with enough dedication and practice.

I enjoyed practices at college. That is where you really get down and dirty and really get some development and see what you have.

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.

With a growth mindset, kids don't necessarily think that there's no such thing as talent or that everyone is the same, but they believe everyone can develop their abilities through hard work, strategies, and lots of help and mentoring from others.

I had to buy into being a better player and being able to be coached.

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.