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Quotes About Practice

Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Finally he said, "Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think" -Papa
~ Sharon M. Draper
The week zipped by. I studied at school every day with Catherine, after school every day with Mrs. V, and every evening at home as well. I reviewed words from all the levels of my board. I practiced spelling long words and matching facts and dates. I made up my own games.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
~ Sharon Salzberg
The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.
~ Sharon Salzberg
We learn from continual practice, but exercises need variety in order to solicit new responses.
~ Shaun McNiff
As Jung suggests, a better understanding of inner processes will benefit what we do in the "outer" world of therapeutic practice.
~ Shaun McNiff
Renaud Lavoie, a reporter with rds, the French-language sports network, said he was amazed by how quickly Crosby learned French and that he continued to practise it.
~ Shawna Richer
These days I think the important word is "transformational," and I define practice as the attempt to establish clarity in the mind so that habits that create suffering are replaced by habits that lead to peace and express themselves as love.
~ Shefa Gold
When mainstream male gay sexual practice eroticises dominance and submission then male gay s/m has to be explained in the context of the construction of male sexuality.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
It came to him then, permeated his disjointed thoughts. Billie was teaching him—him—how to make love. With a jolt of surprise at the crashing irony, Adrian realized he hadn't known how until now. He, the consummate lover, so renown for his sexual skill, so proficient and controlled and practiced, had only played at making love, where Billie…God. Clearly, it was all she knew. Pretense just wasn't in her spectrum of capabilities.
~ Shelby Reed
Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.
~ Shelley E. Taylor
To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.
~ Nhat Hanh
There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
~ Nhat Hanh
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
~ Paul McCartney
I really enjoy what little time I have at home. The golf course and practice facilities are perfect and so close to home!
~ Paula Creamer
I like to address all parts of my game, but I'm really concentrating a lot of time with my coach, David Whelan, on my short game and on the greens.
~ Paula Creamer
The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.
~ Peter Serafinowicz
If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.
~ Phife Dawg
If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!
~ Philippe Kahn
Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.
~ Owen Feltham
I always worry when someone's a good golfer. It's like you shouldn't have time to be good at anything. You should just be a politician and you shouldn't have time to practice golf.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.
~ Eric Bana