Quotes About Practice

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.

I'm a really firm believer that anyone can get pretty good at anything if you just do it all the time and you just keep working at it.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

The serve, I think, is the most difficult, you know, in terms of coordination, because you got the two arms going, and you got to toss it up at the right time so.

I did karate for a really long time, almost 10 years when I was younger.

Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

Everybody has two swings: the one he uses during the last three holes of a tournament and the one he uses the rest of the time.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

That's the way it was every time I studied it.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.

To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

Stage time, stage time, stage time.

You practice with wet balls all the time.

So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.

Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.