Quotes About Practice

It's hard to go out and practice every single day, and you get really tired. But you have to believe in yourself.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used. The faculties are called into no exercise by doing a thing merely because others do it, no more than by believing a thing only because others believe it.

She was good at forgetting; she had practiced for years, and it was now a skill at which she excelled.

There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.

Whether we reach this inner state of recognized divinity through prayer, meditation, dancing, swimming, walking, feeding the hungry or enriching the impoverished is immaterial. We will be doubly bereft without some form of practice that connects us, in a caring way, to what begins to feel like a dissolving world.

The colonizing mind invites itself wherever it wishes to intrude; it is a worthwhile practice for the coming millennium to train ourselves away from such a mind.

We still cling as a culture to the myth of the single writer succeeding on their own as fiercely as we cling to the myth of the self-made billionaire. But that isn't what a disabled poetics and practice has to be.

There are a great many things one can learn to do without actually doing them. Grilling is not one of them.

We don't think about recipes as much as we perform them.

Soon she was engrossed in the lesson, and when he offered her the use of a chair and the rough drawing board he had brought out with him, so that she might practise the techniques he had suggested, she accepted with alacrity

In neither taste nor precision is any man's practice a court of last appeal, for writers all, both great and small, are habitual sinners against the light; and their accuser is cheerfully aware that his own work will supply ... many 'awful examples'...

With repeated practice, you can become so aware of the old patterns that you never allow them to manifest to fruition.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an action, but a habit. —Aristotle

Perhaps the greatest impairment to purposeful practice is the presence of other athletes during a workout.

Because his killing is not a passion of the moment but a compelling urge that has been growing within him sometimes for years, he has completely amalgamated this practice into his lifestyle.

My resolution this year is to get a dog and practice loving something back.

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

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is but a collection of habits.

I believe how I live my life every day is my act of worship.

When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.

Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.