Lynn Coady Quotes

Writing teaches writing.

If you put your time and energy into developing creatively, that's where you'll go.

I want to be a better player, and there is no other way of showing it other than on the pitch. It is not a question of which team I play for.

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.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

You become a great writer by writing.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.

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.

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

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.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better.

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it.

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.

I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.