Quotes About Practice

First begin between selves, set a definite time, at each at that time put down what the other is doing. Do this 20 days. You shall find you have the key to telepathy.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time.

Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.

Spring Training is a fun time for me.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go back in time, to the point when the kata were created, and study them.

If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.

For me, even my break time I like to pull out the bow and just go over a Vivaldi sonata and keep my head sharp, keep everything sharp.