" MacKenzie still throws clay on the wheel every day, and with effort his skill has improved: “I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don’t have a richness about them which I look for in my work today.” “The first 10,000 pots are difficult,” he has said, “and then it gets a little bit easier. "

― Angela Duckworth , Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance