Quotes About Practice

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

I like doing drills and when coaches take you through drills and stuff, but I don't like counting shots and things like that. I just shoot until I feel good.

I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have.

I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.

That's how fighters get better. They watch film, and they work on what they need to work on.

I've done figure drawing classes or whatever.

I bought a book with guitar tabs and forced myself to learn. I would go to school and then come home and sit in my room for hours figuring out the songs.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

I am trying to build the biggest callus possible on my first finger so I can do one-finger bends and vibrato like B.B. King.

I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

I want to work on finishing at the basket more as far as more floaters, being more consistent.

I am working really hard with assistant coaches on both hands, left and right, finishing.

I work on my finishing every day in training.

First thing about snooker, find a cue you're happy with. Then stick with it.

How I go about my work is I like to stay consistent. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, and I have a really good program, and I like to stick to it.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

I'm this big believer that culture is not what you say, it's what you do. Who cares about your PowerPoint and about what you've carved into your cornerstone? If it's not being modeled, it won't be readable.

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

I'd say, at the end of the day, you know, from a songwriting practice standpoint, you write songs to make yourself feel something true and validating, and cathartic, maybe, and then whoever responds to it is, like, out of your control.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

I want to make sure I always show off my smile and have a positive attitude the whole time, whether it's during a performance, practice, or doing an interview.

My whole philosophy is about doing, not talking.

I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice.