Quotes About Practice

We are both committed to the vigorous practice of the Christian faith and the rigorous study of its historical origins and to the belief, which we find constantly reinforced, that these two activities are not, as is often supposed, ultimately hostile to each other.

For what I lack in experience I make up for in diligence.

In omni disciplina informa est artis praeceptio sine summa assiduitate exercitationis.

I can tell you're admiring my febrility. I know it's appealing, I practice at it; every woman loves an invalid. But be careful. You might do something destructive: hunger is more basic than love. Florence Nightingale was a cannibal you know.

Love is a discipline, like prayer," I said.

My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Torture is like dancing: I'm too old for it. Let the younger ones practice their bravery.

Becka had a lot of these control-yourself techniques. I tried to practise them. They worked some of the time.

still at the table, engaged no doubt in some kind of arcane flirtation, she for practise, he in pathetic earnest. Toby

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every day.

A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.

The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

The best shooters shoot the exact same way every single time they look at the basket.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.

Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.