Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

At the heart of mastery lives consistency

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

I have always tried to improve myself in every practice session. When it comes to playing and preparation, I am as disciplined and dedicated as anyone else.

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

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

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.

Consistency is the DNA of mastery

Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

You have to practice until you die.

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

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.

In baseball, you've got to keep working.

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.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

I practice a lot.

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

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

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.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

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

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

I've got to perfect my game. Keep working.

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.