Quotes About Improvement

No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything. "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all" - Michael Angelo

If you want to get better, you simply have to practice. There's no way around it. Even though Prasad, Sona, and Rex all had beneficial early experiences with music, each has had to spend thousands of hours in practice to acquire their musical prowess. Rex told me, "If people could've lived my life and all the hours I've spent practicing the tuba alone in some little room someplace, they probably wouldn't label me as being particularly talented."[6]

Forget about the 10,000-hour rule you've heard so much about. It's a red herring. What's important is not the hours you've practiced, but the kind of practice in your hours. Focus on the tree, not the forest.

The crossroads is a practice room. The devil to be dealt with is practice. Wynton Marsalis calls it "tackling the monster.

You want to be relaxed when you play, and practicing while worried or anxious won't help you achieve that relaxation.

When great musicians practice, they go slowly enough that errors are avoided. When an error does crop up, expert practicers fix those errors immediately. That's the strategy: fixing a mistake immediately. Anybody can do it, and anybody who adopts that strategy will get better faster than those who don't.

Beginners often can't perceive errors unless they're big ones, massive clams that cause the musical endeavor to come crashing to a halt. At this point, beginning practicers usually compound the error by returning to the top of the tune for another attempt, instead of fixing the error immediately, like experts do.

There is no such thing as maintenance. If you're not trying to get better, you're getting worse.

If you are irritated by every rub, how can you be polished?

If you're not engaged and active in a learning situation, you probably won't get much out of it, just as Serge's example illustrates. Get the most out of your practice by coming to lessons—or any learning situation—with specific goals in mind. One of the most powerful things you can learn from a teacher is how to practice. Some teachers

Practicing slowly (combined with active listening) is the first concrete practice technique I've

You have to be careful about practicing, because we start to practice practicing. We need to practice performing.

Ignore how things are. Ignore how they seem. Make the world better.

In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

Life expectancy in the UK in 1900 was forty-seven years for men, fifty for women, and in 2017, seventy-nine years for men and eighty-three for women, an increase of between two and three extra years in every decade. We are, quite simply, better off, better-informed, healthier and freer than any previous generation.

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

no basta con desear mejorar cada día, sino que es necesario actuar.

Hay una ansiedad creativa que es positiva y que conduce a un mejor progreso personal. Es una tensión emocional que lleva a una persona a mejorarse, a sacar lo mejor que lleva dentro y a pulir las vertientes negativas de su forma de ser. Hay una expresión del lenguaje coloquial

Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Don't go through life; grow through life.

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

A Northern teacher in Florida reported how one sixty-year-old woman, "just beginning to spell, seems as if she could not think of any thing but her book, says she spells her lesson all the evening, then she dreams about it, and wakes up thinking about it.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.