Mastery Through Repetition Quotes

Repetition is the mother of skill.

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

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

Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.

If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.

There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.

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

I think that work has been the key for me. Just like they say shooting will become easy if you just keep working at it, well, I love the dribble game-that brings excitement to the game.

You get better at working by working. And if you don't work, you're not getting better.

I think I've gotten technically better over the years but you'd have to be a fool not to. I've made so many movies that by sheer quantity you get better at the technique.

Repetition is the mother of perfection. If there is true perfection, it's about doing something over and over again. I truly think that if somebody does a recipe they've never done before and gets it right, they're probably more lucky than they are talented.

I'm one of those guys who stays behind after practice to try and get better.

The cool thing about playing is that the more you do it, the better you get.

You get rid of the mistakes by playing hard.

You fake something until you're good at it.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

Sometimes taking it slowly, taking a player through the paces is the best way to keep him wanting more.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.

Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won't be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.

You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.

I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.