Joshua Foer Quotes

If you work at something, you get better at it.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.

If you play with people who are better than you, then you get better.

You practice and you get better. It's very simple.

Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

The doer alone learneth.

You have to learn and keep learning.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

For me, I like to push myself... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

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.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

You only get better by playing.

Learn by practice.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.

When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!

In acting, you can always grow and get better - even if you think you're at your limit.

I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.