Quotes About Practice

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

He's practicing his Constitutional right to be a jackass.

The overall Hindu view concerning the practice of authentic yoga may be summarized with these words: "Very few are qualified for yoga, and even fewer are those who succeed in it.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

We ask Your help in remembering to practice an attitude of gratitude today and every day. —suzanne c. cole

Sometimes you can be good at something that you still find really hard. Sometimes, to be good at something, you just need to keep showing the fuck up.

If you wish to become significantly better at something, you can.

Purposeful practice is all about putting a bunch of baby steps together to reach a longer-term goal.

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal.... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain.

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

She drank her wine, looking at me over the rim of her glass. It's a mannerism that has made her very popular with men over the years, and I guess it's like the violin: you have to keep practicing even when you're not performing to an audience.

She drank her wine, looking at me over the rim of the glass. It's a mannerism that has made her very popular with men over the years, and I guess it's like the violin: you have to keep practising even when you're not performing to an audience.

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

There is a knowledge and a practice of connecting ourselves with cosmic Life. It has nothing to do with belief; it is learned. It is increased by our consciousness of it, by our increasing awareness of the abundance of cosmic energy. Life is infinite, and this infinity can be tapped. The only limitation is one of awareness. (p.13 Soul Work, Reflecting Spirit)

Don't put it off, don't wait too long. When we truly commit ourselves to a spiritual path and practice, something in Reality rises up to support us. The destiny of what we're designed to be becomes real, and the fate of unconscious behaviors is avoided. Or, even if not avoided, our mistakes become learning experiences, blessed by some invisible Mercy. As Yunus Emre said, "Ever since the glance of the mature fell upon me, nothing has been a misfortune." (p. 5)

Coherence comes from a deep center, which is the heart. Ultimately it's the heart of the human being connected to Infinite Spirit. When the self is connected to the heart, and the heart is connected to God, you have coherence. It's really that simple. The practice we call "the remembrance of God" is the channel to that coherence. (p. 14)

A Kung Fu Master is a Practitioner of Martial Arts Who Keeps Practicing.

Nay, we had something worse against you: we used to think you the most impracticable people on the earth, for you were said to preach what you never practiced.

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.

The best way of building up a habit for dance is to introduce it early.