Quotes About Practice

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

I meditate. I do transcendental meditation and I have been doing that for a long time and that does just clear the mind. I am not religious at all.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

We need to be sincere in our practice, but at the same time we can't take ourselves too seriously.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

What you have to be, you have to live whatever you do all day long. I always told the artists, every time you're on stage, it's nothing but a dress rehearsal.

I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.