Quotes About Practice

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.

In golf, it's almost impossible to be perfect on each shot; that's the fun and challenge of golf.

For all the fun, don't forget: I always knew when to put my golf balls down and practice.

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

I was a pretty average golfer.

Name me one golfer that doesn't get frustrated.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

I think as golfers, whenever you've had a long period off, you always sort of plan for a bit of rust. Not necessarily how you hit it, but just how you go about playing golf.

If you're doing something and keep doing it, you're gonna get better results.

No one's born a good cook. You have to learn and practice.

I don't know if I am a good cook, but I am a dedicated cook.

I'm not a good cook, unfortunately. I've tried a few times, but I don't like it too much.

Do as many gigs as the good Lord sends. That's the only true training.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

My father told us all the time: to become a good writer takes writing. Because the more you do it, the better you get at it. It's like bull-riding. You can't do it once, you know. You've got to practice it and practice it.

For a whole fortnight my mind and my fingers have been working around me like two lost souls. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Byron, Hugo, Lamertine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them, meditate on them, devour them with fury; besides this, I practise four to five hours a day of exercises (thirds, sixths, octaves, tremolos, repetition of notes, cadenzas, etc.). Ah! provided I don't go mad you will find me an artist!

Only you have to keep practicing and remembering.

You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours every evening.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

Certainly one quality which nowadays has been best forgotten—and that is why it will take some time yet for my writings to become readable—is essential in order to practise reading as an art—a quality for the exercise of which it is necessary to be a cow, and under no circumstances a modern man!—rumination.   SILS-MARIA, UPPER ENGADINE, July, 1887.

In practice it is death that works so seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

The Four Noble Truths for writers. 1. Writers write. 2. Writing is a process. 3. You don't know what your writing will be until the end of the process. 4. If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.