Paul Cezanne Quotes

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

The one way of getting better is by practising - both on and off the pitch.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

Look with all your eyes, look.

I must continue to work hard in training. I need to think more like a goal scorer; sometimes I get so immersed in the game because I love general play so much.

Men don't pay attention to small things.

When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.

For me, practice and discipline are the magic words to become big in any sport, especially soccer.

If you want to really learn your playbook, you just do it.

People think I can just walk out and shoot 75 without taking a warm-up shot. But believe me, it's not that easy.

I learned early that it's very important to approach every single kick you attempt, even those in practice, as if it were in a game.

We do about 600 saves in a training week, just for that one save on a match day. That's why you've got to be in the game at all times.

In sports, everything is a process.

When we turn on our observation capabilities, we become much more in the moment and much more powerful. Psychic powers have been known to develop from consistent practice of paying attention. It's available to us all. It's all in what we choose to practice.

I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.

I learn how to put myself in situations at practice that cause me to zone in on what I'm trying to accomplish at meets. I try to make my practice surrounding as close to competition pressure to focus on what I need to do on the big stage.

I just want to keep on getting better and improving. Those extra hours on the training pitch, whether it be with the boys or individually, I am just looking to improve.

There's always room to improve, so I'm going to continue to improve on defense, offense, being consistent and continuing to play hard.

It's hard to train that in practice time. You can make calls, you can make adjustments, but just that pressure, 'This is what it is, this is reality, I need to concentrate on every play,' that's what we've got to get through.

In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.