Bruce Barton Quotes

I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

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

When one goes to school, you don't have any idea of what you're going to learn. But as each day passes, you learn things. I believe sport is the same way. Some guys are born with a talent. But you have to nurture that talent and continue to learn.

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.

Training isn't the same as playing.

All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

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.

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.

Seems like my iron play gets a little better every year. Which makes sense - I've been working hard on things with my teacher, Jim McLean.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

There's no shortcut to learning a craft; you just have to put the years in.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

There were a lot of players who gave me suggestions when I was young. At times, they were very good suggestions, and I took them seriously, applied them to my batting, and got success after that.

Everything has technique to it. So if there's something you wanna try out, I think it's always good to get a trainer or listen to people who know what they're doing.

You try to get mental reps through the eyes of others, then it's your job to kind of get your reps through your eyes. So that's kind of what I do.

You got to become a student of the game. You got to learn the game before you can go out there and play fast.