Quotes About Practice

I've seen my dad practice and, trust me, when you are 6 years old and you see that, it stays with you. My dad was a coach who taught the judo fighters and they would be throwing up because they would be so tired from working.

I bought a crystal ball, and I wanted to use it, but I didn't know how, and I wouldn't use it until I developed a technique to use it that was truthful.

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

If anything, more kids that want to get good at golf will get fine-tuned. It's factual. It's science, how to build a golfer. I think that's huge.

What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates.

I feel like if you play basketbal, you should want to improve all the time. You should never feel like you don't need to improve.

I always stayed on before and after practice. I just think that if you want to excel at anything, be it basketball, dance or the piano, you need to practice a lot.

One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.

I love playing the piano. I really want to start taking lessons but need to find the time.

Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be.

Being a musician, you want to be able to do the hardest stuff there is. People would think it's classical, but in classical, it's all on the page and the difficulty is keeping up with the music.

I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.

The game the mind must play to unleash destruction. He'd stood amidst the ranks more than once, sensing the soldiers alongside him seeking and finding that place in the mind, cold and silent, the place where husbands, fathers, wives and mothers became killers. And practice made it easier, each time. Until it becomes a place you never leave.

He'd stood amidst the ranks more than once, sensing the soldiers alongside him seeking and finding that place in the mind, cold and silent, the place where husbands, fathers, wives and mothers became killers. And practice made it easier, each time. Until it becomes a place you never leave.

Anyone who has mastered a weapon – truly mastered it – is a humble man or woman.

Nonetheless, you can start trying out generics and extended for loops today.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Con todas sus imperfecciones, la ciencia moderna es una técnica que se amolda lo suficiente a la naturaleza como para funcionar: una práctica que nos permite aprender cosas fiables acerca del mundo. En este sentido, se trata de una técnica que esperaba a que la gente la descubriera.

Nos proporciona un intenso placer conseguir explicar algo con éxito, al igual que cuando Newton explicó las leyes del movimiento planetario de Kepler, junto con otras muchas cosas. Las teorías y los métodos científicos que sobreviven son aquellos que proporcionan esa satisfacción, encajen o no con ningún modelo preexistente sobre cómo habría que practicar la ciencia.

I chose "Discovery" instead of "Invention" to suggest that science is the way it is not so much because of various adventitious historic acts of invention, but because of the way nature is. With all its imperfections, modern science is a technique that is sufficiently well tuned to nature so that it works—it is a practice that allows us to learn reliable things about the world. In this sense, it is a technique that was waiting for people to discover it.

My friend would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.