William Hazlitt Quotes

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.

All I've done since I was young was hone my craft.

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

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

I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.

We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.

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

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

I want to do one thing and do it well.

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

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

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

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

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

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

I want to get better and better at my craft.

If instead of completely focusing on what you are doing, you are racing ahead to something shinier or to the next best thing, you will not develop excellence.

You have to continue to hone your craft.

I just have to do what I have to do, and just let my hands go and focus.

You have to train yourself, think, contemplate, and work on your craft every day.

You never really get to be good at anything.

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

I'm going to keep perfecting my craft and keep getting better.

I work hard on my game.