Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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 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 fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

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

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

We must patiently practice every day.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.

The very essence of success is practice.

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

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.

The way I look at tricks is if I really have my mind set on one, I'm going to learn it until I can do it 10 or 20 times in a row. I want to perfect it.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

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

You've got to put in a lot of practice if you want to be good in something. You've got to do it the right way.

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

What I would do after training is stay half an hour and kick the ball against a wall with my weaker foot over and over again to make sure it gets stronger. And young players should remember that everything comes from the base of hard work, so never give up.

Consistency is always the best teacher.

The only way you're going to improve is playing games and learning, being a regular week on week.

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.