Robert Mankoff Quotes

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.

You only get better by playing.

Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.

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

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

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

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

The more you draw, the better you get.

I have to really work hard at my craft.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

I work really hard on my craft.

What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won't be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

Practice makes perfect.

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

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.

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

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right.

My secret is practice.

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

We have to practice to become perfect.