Randy Pausch Quotes

To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

Practice makes permanent.

Sometimes it's harder to untrain somebody with dance experience than it is to teach somebody with a new skill.

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.

But as we went on, and you keep practicing and rehearsing more and more fight scenes, it clicks and you just get it. It's almost like a soccer game. If you take enough shots on target, one of them is going to go in. As soon as it does, something happens and it just registers. I found it a lot easier after that, which was about three-quarters of the way through the shoot.

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they become part of our existence. Before reaching that stage, however, you must practice and repeat. And if that's not enough, you must practice and repeat some more.

Once you learn to do something consciously, you can move it into the subconscious and do it well. Everything you do well will be done subconsciously.

As it is in the body, so it is in the mind; practice makes it what it is, and most even of those excellencies, what are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch, only by repeated actions.

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.

Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop. 99% of what you need to succeed in golf are skills

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

I learned to write by writing.

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

Repetition is the mother of skill.

It takes time to learn to draw. It takes years, not a few weeks.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist.

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.

I believe that we learn by practice.

No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)

As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I can guide them to books that will serve as role models. Largely, though, one learns to write almost like developing muscle memory, and this requires years of effort.