Quotes About Practice

You can replace any pattern of behavior (or thought) with another. All it takes is relentless practice.

Thomas Watson who said, "The Scriptures are the library of the Holy Ghost.… The Scriptures contain in it the credenda, 'the things which we are to believe,' and the agenda, 'the things which we are to practice.'" I need to make sure I visit that library every day.

One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try. —Sophocles

Self-discipline is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger you become.

Courage is a learned mental skill that you must condition, just as weight training strengthens your muscles.

There's three different kinds of Christian," said Cash. "There's preaching Christians, church-playing Christians, and then there's practicing Christian. I'm trying very hard to be a practicing Christian.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

Don't listen to what people say; watch what they do.

We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

I can do the Sky Hook, but I'm not confident with it.

I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.

If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.

I was performing in front of mirrors forever. Just jumping around my room at, like, three in the morning when everybody else was sleeping. So when it came time, I was so ready.

I have got pictures of me sleeping on the bench when I was four years old while my dad was practicing. I used to go to practice with him all of the time and they would play until it was late. I sometimes got tired and I would be sleeping there, but it was inside so not too bad.

Games are often won or lost on the free-throw line. This isn't about slick moves or great skills. It's about practice, muscle memory, and being able to keep a cool head under pressure.

For somebody like me who doesn't bowl, it's important to contribute in the field, and I've worked hard on that, slip catching.

Without practice, just playing games, a lot of habits kind of slip away.

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.

I learnt the slower ball in the post-1992 period after I saw Franklin Stevenson of the West Indies in the county circuit. I would practice in the nets, hit people on the head, have the ball fly over the nets. I got it right after a lot of practice.

I'm very clumsy, so I learned to walk very slowly wearing heels every day.

There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

You go through slumps. The shot feels good in practice and looks good and for whatever reason in the game, they're in and out. Sometimes it gets frustrating, but for me, I've played in the league long enough to know you just have to put in the work in practice and shoot with confidence, shoot your way out of it.

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

On the practice green, I hit a lot of four-footers with my right hand only. But whatever grip I'm using, you can bet I'm feeling good about it. Otherwise, I'd change. That's how I avoid slumps.