Quotes About Practice

Acquiring expertise in chess is harder and slower than learning to read because there are many more letters in the "alphabet" of chess and because the "words" consist of many letters. After thousands of hours of practice, however, chess masters are able to read a chess situation at a glance.

two basic conditions for acquiring a skill: an environment that is sufficiently regular to be predictable an opportunity to learn these regularities through prolonged practice

the accurate intuitions of experts are better explained by the effects of prolonged practice than by heuristics.

skill is much more difficult to acquire by sheer experience because of the long delay between actions and their noticeable outcomes. Whether professionals have a chance to develop intuitive expertise depends essentially on the quality and speed of feedback, as well as on sufficient opportunity to practice.

As you become skilled in a task, its demand for energy diminishes.

In particular, the accurate intuitions of experts are better explained by the effects of prolonged practice than by heuristics. We can now draw a richer and more balanced picture, in which skill and heuristics are alternative sources of intuitive judgments and choices.

Spiritual masters claim that the insights obtained from the 'original mind' in deep meditation cannot be conveyed in terms of rational thought and language, which are products of an entirely different, much narrower mode of consciousness. Only through persistent personal practice may one come to experience the awareness of 'original mind' and tap the vast trove of primordial wisdom and spiritual insight it holds.

I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.

There are no bad drawings. Drawings are experiences. The more you draw, the more experienced you'll get. In fact, you'll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences than from those that go exactly as you'd hoped and planned. So let it go. Release your ego's desire for perfection. Take risks. Stretch. Grow. Create as much as you can, whenever you can.

Keep your eyes on the things you are drawing 80 percent of the time and on your page just 20 percent.

The excellence reflex is a natural reaction to fix something that isn't right, or to improve something that could be better. The excellence reflex is rooted in instinct and upbringing, and then constantly honed through awareness, caring and practice. The overarching concern to do the right thing well is something we can't train for. Either it's there or it isn't.

It is the divorce between Jesus' entire message and the practice of the church.

Jesus' meal practice was about inclusion in a society with sharp social boundaries.

The paradigm shift has been away from institutional and organizational understandings of unity towards the more martyriological practice of unity, demonstrating what God's love in Christ makes possible in communities of forgiven sinners, communities in which our humanly made walls of separation are being taken down.

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

If you spend years and years dialing 4-1-1 and never practice 9-1-1, then under stress you are likely to dial 4-1-1.

When a training scenario does not go the way you wanted it to, then do it again, but do not ever think you are dead in an exercise.

Whatever is drilled in during training comes out the other end in combat.

Do not expect the combat fairy to come bonk you with the combat wand and suddenly make you capable of doing things that you never rehearsed before. It will not happen.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

Now, as to what he's doing, let me say that the Doctor is at practice of the art of, ah, Pratantimancy – a discipline, you know, of his people.