Samuel Johnson — What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, 'The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds'
Ease is not where skill begins; it is what skill becomes. Every effortless thing you have ever watched someone do was once done by them slowly, carefully, badly.
So the awkwardness of your English now is not evidence against your future fluency. It is the required first draft of it.
Words that widen the world
Careful and persistent effort.
Synonyms: care, industry, thoroughness
Diligence today becomes ease tomorrow.
Absence of difficulty or effort.
Synonyms: facility, effortlessness, fluency
He now speaks with complete ease.
Common questions
It means anything we want to do effortlessly must first be practiced with careful, deliberate effort.
An 18th-century English writer and lexicographer who compiled one of the most influential early dictionaries of English.
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