Quotes About Practice

I thought you got faster by running on sleds. That does get you faster, but the most important thing when it comes to speed is getting your technique down. Technique, that's the main thing when it comes to speed.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

The best way to learn sweep picking is to first isolate the right- and left-hand techniques, master them separately and then coordinate them.

Pastry school is great for a foundation and introducing you to basic techniques, but it is really up to the chefs to practice, practice, practice and refine their techniques.

I'm not a method actor. The techniques that I follow have been created and practiced in my own journey, ones that I have researched, formed and invented.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say that the piano hasn't helped my writing. It has, just not in the ways I expected.

I'm much better off the tee. I'm not a great putter. I do not have a good short game.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

I was such a lazy teenager: I didn't read or play the piano beyond the bare minimum.

I was a harpsichordist in my teens, and there was a bunch of us in Liverpool who got together every week to play Bach.

I used to be very lazy in my teens. I didn't practise enough but I was OK when I started really getting into snooker.

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.

One of the first things I tell people is, if you want to learn about investing, you want to open an account and make real investments because that's when it becomes real.

Golf has taught me a lot about patience and keeping my temper.

I want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

Does providing explicit grammatical information during receptive practice have an effect on L2 development?