Christopher Alexander Quotes

You've got to perfect your craft.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

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.

There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

The biggest challenge to me is always technique.

I wouldn't expect anybody to look for superawesome crisp technique out of me.

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

If you're any good at all at what you do, you get better the more you do it.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.

I think the ultimate compliment that someone can give you is that you're a technician.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

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.

Sometimes spectacular things look really great, but when push comes to shove come fifth round, the basics, fundamentals and technical aspects are going to come into effect.

Anything that's done correctly is easy.

I have put in more than 10,000 hours perfecting my craft. And I am good at it.

I've got my speed, my precision. I have tools. I'm going to use them.

Practice makes the master.