Quotes About Practice

The principle of equal pay for equal work is written in the EU Treaties since 1957. It is high time that it is put in practice everywhere.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

You know what I think, Sarah? I think that when God made all those animals, He was practicing. He made them all different shapes and sizes, and He just kept on practicing. For when He made man. But He had to practice a lot, first. That's why the animals are all so different-looking. What do you think? 'Sometimes,' Sarah said, 'I think He didn't practice enough.

I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you know the heartbreak isn't exactly real, that it will be gone by the time you get home and make a cup of tea. I found a lot of life like that when I was younger, as though I was practicing for what came later.

I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

Do it every day for a while," my father kept saying. "Do it as you would do scales on the piano. Do it by prearrangement with yourself. Do it as a debt of honor. And make a commitment to finishing things.

I decided to go to the beach at San Quentin, and practice living as if today was one of the precious few left to me. What a concept.

I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.

However, in the meantime, we are going to concentrate on writing itself, on how to become a better writer, because, for one thing, becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.

I encourage my students at times like these to get one page of anything written, three hundred words of memories or dreams or stream of consciousness on how much they hate writing—just for the hell of it, just to keep their fingers from becoming too arthritic, just because they have made a commitment to try to write three hundred words every day. Then, on bad days and weeks, let things go at that.

It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful—just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them.

You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

What is the use of knowing everything, if you never actually practise it? They are forever cooking and never eating

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write.

Sybelle is obsessed with one thing, and that is playing the piano. For the first time she laid her hands on the keys she has wanted nothing else.

I came to think of it as a kind of zen practice: the Zen of not fucking up.

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.

The challenge, it turns out, isn't in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of

There's a practice available to each of us—the practice of embracing the process of creation in service of better. The practice is not the means to the output, the practice is the output

If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.

repeat itself; it can't. But the creative journey still follows a pattern. It's a practice of growth and connection, of service and daring. It's also a practice of selflessness and ego in an endless dance.

People don't remember what they read, what they hear, or even what they see. If they're lucky, people remember what they do, but they're not very good at that either.

Practicing how to throw. Getting good at throwing. If you get good enough at throwing, the catching takes care of itself.