Martha Graham 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 tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

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.

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.

I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.

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

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

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

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

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.

Practice every time you get a chance.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

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

You only get better by playing.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

I think about trying to make it better. That's all I do when we play 'Even Flow' or anything off of 'Ten': 'Let's do this the best we can.'

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.

How long you can continue to be good at something is how much you believe in yourself and how much hard work you do with the training.

I'm a practice player. The more I practice, the more confident I become.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

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

It's natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, 'You have to do it again and again and again.'

I was pretty rubbish when I first started dancing. I didn't understand the discipline of working on one step over and over again. If you look at it from the outside, you'd think, 'Why would anybody want to do that?' But you just want to get it perfect. It is that constant inner striving that you fall in love with.