Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

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

I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

The commitment. I think that's the key quality of all successful people. You just have to keep at it. People who enjoy sustained success understand the fact that you have to remain very committed to whatever it is you're doing, especially in this instant-gratification culture.

Sticking to it is the genius.

Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Whether I want to be at practice or not, I show up every day. Whether I'm healthy or I'm sick or hurt or tired, I show up every day.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

I just keep working.

The key is to keep playing hard and the rest will take care of itself.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!