Quotes About Practice

It's very difficult to consistently hit good iron shots if you get off to a bad start. That's why I'm always paying attention to my setup and takeaway.

I think my advice to other actors would be to get in classes. Get out in front of people. Put up scenes in front of your peers.

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

I don't practice many penalties! I don't mind taking them but don't really practice saving many.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.

Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.

A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American.

My 3-point percentage is low, but I think I just need to work on that.

I want to improve my dance moves and achieve perfection.

I might have a different understanding of the term 'football star.' If I shoot a few balls after training, it's perfectly normal that I collect them afterwards.

At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He wants to begin individually and then synchronise all the performances. It only happens after all the separate acts are learned and practised long and well.

I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.

I've performed in concert halls thousands and thousands of times in my life.

I believe that comfort level is crucial for a performer.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.

You have to learn how to sing from your diaphragm, and you don't become a great performer overnight. It takes a while. The more you do it, the better you are.

I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.

Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.

My son is a musician who next year will be attending the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City, which his mother helped him get into by making him practice all the time.