Quotes About Practice

It's only hard until it becomes easy.

the smile was merely an affectation, that he had practiced it over and over until he could make it look genuine, but it still made her feel good. "Lieutenant Mathers, I appreciate that.

well, David Bayles, to be exact — who began piano studies with a Master. After a few months' practice, David lamented to his teacher, "But I can hear the music so much better in my head than I can get out of my fingers." To which the Master replied, "What makes you think that ever changes?

Artists come together in the clear knowledge that when all is said and done, they will return to their studio and practice their art alone. Period. That simple truth may be the deepest bond we share.

Some people may be more gifted than others, but excellence in writing, as in any art form or craft, involves discipline and practice.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

They are the most disagreeable of people. … Their insincerity? Can you not feel a sense of disgust at the arrogant presumption of superiority of these people? Superiority of intellect! Then, when it comes to practice, down they fall with a wallop not only to the level of ordinary human beings but to a level which is even far below the average.

We must never assume that local practice conforms with state theory.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

we are unaware of any convincing evidence that languages are acquired through "practice." On the other hand, studies have shown that students can reach high levels of proficiency through input alone—that is, with little or no production of the language through speech or writing.

The Laches Doctrine is one of my favorites to practice daily

Don't just practice it but actually follow through and go out and do it before preaching it to the world!

To me playing a violin requires passion, and passion requires a good back.

You need to do more than practice as only when you do will you have the right to preach it

I think practice what you preach is a half-baked cop out as you need to do more than practice as only when you do will you have the right to preach it

You have to find your discipline to bake your first cake

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

Making coffee is a simple art, yet it also has so many aspects: practice, precision, and the sheer pleasure of making something you know you're going to enjoy. It's an expanding universe of wonderfulness; you never run out of things to get better at.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

To some persons nowadays, mindfulness might seem to be just another short course. After auditing it for only a few weeks, they could thereafter meditate casually, whenever … This isn't where Living Zen Remindfully is coming from. Authentic Zen training means committing oneself to a process of regular, ongoing daily life practice. This preparation enables one to unlearn old unfruitful habits, retrain more wholesome ones, and lead a more genuinely creative life. Currently,

Do some involuntary forms of ''no-thought'' attention normally exist that can be cultivated during long-term meditative training?

The new feast of Corpus Christi ("Body of Christ"), with processions winding through the streets, was established in the thirteenth century, and the practice of exposing the Blessed Sacrament in the monstrance ("showing") a little later.