Stephen Covey Quotes

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.

Guys that have the best shot in the world still shoot pucks, and that's for a reason. You keep growing your game and finding different ways to produce.

There will never come a time when you don't have to practice

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.

The very essence of success is practice.

It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

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.

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

Dancers are made, not born.

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.

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

If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

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.

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

You have to continue to hone your craft.

Every day in training, we will try to work to keep improving the things we can do and maintaining the levels we're at.

The real work is in the practice.

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

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

Practice is the path of mastery.

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.