Quotes About Practice

I feel acting needs professional training. Very few actors are inherently talented.

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

You never just do a scene once; you do it an insane amount of times.

When I got my law degree and my license to practice here in the District of Columbia, I represented several immigrants who had entered without inspection.

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

Put yourself into every situation in training and against every style of bowling, and do that for hours and hours and hours. Then when you get to a match, it's almost instinctive the way you play because you've done it so often in training.

Trust your instincts, and the best way to trust them is to practice them.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

From the very beginning, we were all a hundred and ten percent about the music, from the very early days when we could barely play our instruments, and we were just covering other people's songs when we were in high school.

I think that the more that you play and the more instruments you play and the better you get at them, then you will be better off for it as a guitarist.

I've never allowed my specific personal practice or belief to be overtly integrated to the music. Because that's crossing the line into, 'We want you to think this.' And that's not what we're about.

In my opinion, long and intense study of the human figure is the necessary foundation for a sculptor.

I really tried to play more intensely in practice and not play like maybe two, three hours just like that. I just go to court and spend a lot of hours as well on gym, or just make a lot of sprints and movement.

My secret is to train as intensively as I can, if possible, with the same intensity you experience in a real match.

Obviously nobody takes preseason lightly. But there's not the same intensity, there's not the same focus.

There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

We were always being taken to rehearsals when we were little and it is probably because of that that I like rehearsals better than concerts. There is something about listening to a group of people try over and over to get it right and at last do that provides a tension of drama you don't get when they're all dressed up giving a concert.

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

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To know that we don't know, yet to keep practicing, is the way we learn to go deeper.