Davis Webb Quotes

The doer alone learneth.

I've learned my tricks watching videos on the Internet with friends. I'm always trying to copy what I've seen at home, what I learned from my friends. But you have to repeat it again and again to get it right on the field.

You always want to be working, doing reps, but there is also a time you need the mental reps.

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.

Practice makes permanent.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific.

Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Writing teaches writing.

I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.

I've played and I've been a student of the game.

I'm a student of the game, and any time you take more reps in a game, it's going to prepare you more.

It doesn't matter if it's first-, second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-string snaps - any time you get a snap and get to go out there and practice, you build a database of information.

We record Dream Theater shows and I'll sit on the bus and listen to my playing - what worked, what didn't. A lot of times it's embarrassing and humbling, but that's what you have to do to get better.

The more you practice something, the more you are aware of what you're doing.

There is no better teacher than life itself.