Chuck Yeager Quotes

You only get better by playing.

Learn by practice.

There is nothing like practice.

I'm all about getting the training. Don't roll out of bed and say, 'I can do this.'

With every look I can get and every defense I play against I get more experience.

I don't think there's any substitute for experience.

The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.

The very essence of success is practice.

The more I practise, the luckier I become

Repetition is the key to real learning.

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

Success is less about luck, and more about practice.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people who take out their cameras for Christmas and birthdays. Each time, like them, probably, I feel it’s the first time and as if I would have to relearn the moves. Luckily, it comes pretty fast, like riding a bike.

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.