Quotes About Practice

Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

the way. The knowledge of how to swim or ride a bicycle cannot be passed along, or taught in a seminar-it must be

W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self.

L]iberation [doesn't occur] in wearing robes or performing ritual acts.

The gap between the best software engineering practice and the average practice is very wide—perhaps wider than in any other engineering discipline. A tool that disseminates good practice would be important. — Fred Brooks

Deliberate practice has three key components: setting specific goals; obtaining immediate feedback; and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.

Trying to keep a public men's room clean? Sure, go ahead and put up signs urging people to pee neatly—or, better, paint a housefly on the urinal and watch the male instinct for target practice take over.

Business acumen is the term used to describe a person's understanding of various dimensions of a business that are "in play" as situations arise. This "business common sense" is built up over time, just like practitioners such as surgeons, musicians, or pilots get better with practice.

A sustained scenario practice can make leaders comfortable with the ambiguity of an open future," Wack writes. "It can counter hubris, expose assumptions that would otherwise remain implicit, contribute to shared and systemic sense-making, and foster quick adaptation in times of crisis.

the political scientist James Payne suggests that ancient peoples put a low value on other people's lives because pain and death were so common in their own. This set a low threshold for any practice that had a chance of bringing them an advantage, even if the price was the lives of others.

Bayesian reasoning recommends against the common practice of using "textbook" as an insult and "scientific revolution" as a compliment.

For most of the history of civilization, the practice of slavery was the rule rather than the exception.

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

I like the idea of being a student, and I play with very good musicians. So playing with them allows me to get better. My aim is to get better, but I really love it for its own sake.

Just love what you are doing, and try to play more.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

If you love music, than you can play music.

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.