Quotes About Practice

We fear becoming invisible if we stop practicing our faults.

Champions keep playing untill they get it right.

Repetition builds conditioning.

Somewhere else in the world, someone is practicing while you're not, and when you meet him, he'll beat you.

you would like to cure yourself of unbelief and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses said, etc. Even this will naturally make you believe, and deaden your acuteness.

I could never sit in a room and just play all by myself. I needed to play for people and all the time. You can say I practiced in public.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

Ordinarily, people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious to establish the myth of their own infallibility that they turn back on truth as squarely as they can. Politics mean nothing to me. I don't like people who are indifferent to the truth.

It is my practice to index my Journal entries every other week or so. I find that this is more efficient than indexing them straight away. After some time has passed it is easier to separate the important from the ephemeral.

Anger is often a big problem for people who grew up in families where the overt expression of anger was an everyday occurrence. They have too much opportunity to practice anger and not enough sense of the other possibilities. Rage becomes, for them, the habitual response of the mind to unpleasant situations. ... When people begin to see that anger, like any other mind energy, is just a transient phenomenon and therefore workable, they are very relieved [p. 83].

Se eu nunca aprendesse, nunca teria que colocar aquilo em prática.

Because we are creatures of habit, we need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

I liken a life without daily spiritual practice to a house built on sand.

In order to grow stronger, we need a container for our energies. That container is best built by ongoing practice, self-observation, and learning how to connect outward from our center.

A life that includes daily spiritual practice is a house built on a strong foundation.

we often avoid daily practice not out of laziness, or lack of discipline, but because we know that profound changes will occur in our lives and we are not sure we are up to shouldering what feels like the burden of the unknown. Something inside of us fears the loss of normalcy and the familiar.

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

T.S. Eliot said to me "There's only one way a poet can develop his actual writing – apart from self-criticism & continual practice. And that is by reading other poetry aloud – and it doesn't matter whether he understands it or not (i.e. even if it's in another language.) What matters above all, is educating the ear.

I know how to boil water, that doesn't make me a gourmet chef.

I hate those things," grumbled Kel as she removed the bowstring.

I have come back into the desert in sore need of the disciplines I once learned here, things which fail me from lack of practice.

There is a crucially important difference about playing the game of investing compared to virtually any other activity. Most of us have no chance of being as good as the average in any pursuit where others practice and hone skills for many, many hours. But we can be as good as the average investor in the stock market with no practice at all. Jeremy Siegel, Professor of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Stocks for the Long Run

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good. You would deny me the practice of it. Mierda! I should have left you on the comet.

Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.