Richie Benaud Quotes

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

My craft's been rising. I'm a student of the game and I'm still growing.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain teachable. I was sure that I didn't know everything. People who work with me will tell you I don't think I know everything. I watch people sink around me thinking that they knew everything.

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

If you have done something once, you can do it again or you can do it better. The beauty is the pursuit of the limit, not the limit itself. At least that's what I hope people realize.

I'm still learning. It's all a learning curve. Every time you sit down, with any given episode of any given show, it is a learning curve. You're learning something new about how to tell a story. But then, I've felt that way about everything I've ever done - television, features or whatever. Directing or writing, it always feels like the first day of school to me.

I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any easier, because it's a new set of problems and a new set of challenges with each one, and having dealt with one before means that you now know how to do it.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

I really feel that most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them. Making children do something hard can, in the long run, be a great parental service.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

You keep learning all the time.