Quotes About Practice

A pianist practices for up to 10 hours a day. Then, when he takes to the stage, you see the harmony. Having such an elegant touch is a natural gift, but it's the daily training which allows you to perform that miracle and create feeling, even if you were born tone-deaf.

Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices.

The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.

A company gets better at the things it practices.

If you're not playing really well, practices can sort of correct it.

I try to have the same mindset in my practices as I would for my fights.

Every day I'm getting shaped and molded. Keepin' on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more I'm in it, the more I'm practicing and the more I'm advancing.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

It was football I enjoyed most. When I moved to L.A. to become a stand-up comedian, I thought it might be a good comedy hook to also be the punter for USFL club The L.A. Express, so I started practicing for the tryouts. Luckily, my stand-up took off, and I didn't need to do it.

When I'm practicing, I think I'm pretty focused, and I spend a lot of energy on making sure I get better, but once I'm outside the rink, I think, like anyone else, I like to enjoy everything that everyone else does.

I think religion is very personal. I definitely identify as Muslim. I consider myself practicing, but I don't think people who observe me from the outside would think of me as devout, and that doesn't bother me because one of the beauties of Islam is the fact that it is personal: you read the Koran, and what you believe is what you believe.

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

With my first album it was a little bit like I was practicing.

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries.

Once I got to college, I realized that practicing 3-6 days wasn't going to be enough for me to get where I wanted.

Once I got the Playstation I started practicing, because if I do something I want to do it right.

I was in school to play basketball; I wasn't trying to be a doctor. It's hard to talk about the NCAA rules and everything that happened in the past because I've just been focused on practicing and getting ready... I was trying to reach my dreams, and that's to play in the NBA.

You think I can be the MVP without practicing?

I love football, and I love practicing.

I'm used to practicing. I'm used to the schedule. That's kind of what I was born to do. That's what I've been doing my whole life.

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.

I'm a person who hates practicing. It's my arch-nemesis, but it helps.

During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes. I never really considered judges or scholars as either those who used legislative history or those who were opposed to it until after I got on the court.