Quotes About Practice

It's the hardest thing in the world to dedicate to writing, but if you do that even once a week, after six months or a year you'll have something substantial.

The hardest thing is in terms of the drawing, because, you know, I really have to work to keep my hand fluid, and I've done a lot of recovery, but it's not the same as it once was.

Through watching my friends do their makeup, I learned how to properly blend eyeshadow. That's the hardest thing out of everything to me.

I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.

Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

The one thing I've learned from other great players is that you are what you do every single day.

As a shooter, the one thing you want to be is consistent.

The one thing is the more I play second base, the more I can work on the intricate movements of that position.

The one thing I've done all my life, and I study it and I dedicated pretty much all of my time for the past two decades, is dancing.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

The only thing we can control is the daily work we put in, and that's all that matters.

The high note is not the only thing.

I don't need to practise. The only thing I need to do is build up my match fitness.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

Theater is constant, constant study and constant work. It's a morning to midnight profession.

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.

Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to TV theme music - one of my favorites is 'M*A*S*H.' I'll just play along with anything on the TV.

A church that looks and talks and sounds just like the world has no reason to exist. A church that does not emphasize asceticism and discipleship is as pointless as a football coaching staff that doesn't care if its players show up for practice. And though liturgy by itself is not enough, a church that neglects to involve the body in worship is going to find it increasingly difficult to get bodies into services on Sunday morning as America moves further into post-Christianity.

You can read books, blog posts, magazine articles (keep reading CODE Magazine, please), and watch training videos, and yet still not understand the impact of a technology in your development life. It's not until you build an application (large or small) using a particular tool, technique or technology that you will really get it.