The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.
Jocko WillinkScience is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
Leonardo da VinciOf course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
Brian EnoThere is no harm in repeating a good thing.
PlatoChinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.
Fidel CastroWhen you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerBecause my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.
Tom BradyWhat is common sense isn’t common practice.
Stephen CoveySince day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.
Kendrick LamarJiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he’s been making his whole life, and he’s still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.
Anthony BourdainJust like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.
Jurgen KloppI practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn’t getting anywhere – like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department – I would draw the other people.
Richard P. FeynmanWe are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest HemingwayThe fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad AliOf all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Friedrich NietzscheVirtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
ConfuciusDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David ThoreauI do my job like I breathe.
Karl LagerfeldAs a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.
Kevin HartI have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor SwiftA chorus is not easy.
The WeekndOne of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.
Dwayne JohnsonThe goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn’t to take someone down to the ground – the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That’s what the goal is.
Jocko WillinkYou can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIn Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.
Thich Nhat HanhWe learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.
Jackie ChanThat is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.
Keanu ReevesHave convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor RooseveltI’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe BryantI just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
Lady GagaThe pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
Bertrand RussellYou have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Brian TracyHowever great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques RousseauSo many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.
Harper LeeHistory repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl MarxWhen you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
Thich Nhat HanhCommunism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
Will RogersFinancial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
Robert KiyosakiTo the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.
Albert EinsteinI probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.
Lando NorrisI’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
Woody AllenWhen you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
Jackie ChanI want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking.
Conor McGregorPolitics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
Pope FrancisI am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.
Jurgen KloppWhy did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
Jackie ChanOne of the things that I’m very excited about with New Shepard, which is our suborbital tourism vehicle, is using that to get a lot of practice. One of the equilibria that we’re at today with space launch is that we don’t get to practice enough.
Jeff BezosI was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
Lady GagaA lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.
Kevin HartI’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.
Dolly PartonI want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard ShawReligion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.
Mahatma GandhiI just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.
Conor McGregorWhen I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.
Abby Lee MillerI know I have a responsibility to the fans.
Jackie ChanOn ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
Taylor SwiftVolleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.
LeBron JamesFor me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.
Stephen CurryBecoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
Paul Auster