Robert Schumann Quotes

The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

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

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their passion and show them the opportunities that exist. That was the big, overarching message of 'Dirty Jobs.'

When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.

I have put in more than 10,000 hours perfecting my craft. And I am good at it.

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

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

To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice... practice... practice.

I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.

Spontaneity comes after skill, not before.

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