Nicole Byer Quotes

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

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

You get rid of the mistakes by playing hard.

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.

Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

I promise you, if you look at YouTube and see some of my first covers, you will hear that I don't sound good. But I was so obsessed with it and wanted so much to be good at it that I forced myself to figure out what sounds right and what sounds wrong.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.

Experimenting is part of the process. I remember when I was younger, I spent a whole year just writing on straight trap beats because I just wanted to be able to do that at a high level. So it's about perfecting your craft in every way.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.

Practice makes perfect.

You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good.

I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, well, neither do I. I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything- You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.

Sometimes there's something that you need a few takes to get it and if it takes 15 takes, it takes 15 takes. It really depends.

Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.

I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored