Quotes About Practice

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

I try and treat songwriting as something that I have to practise every day.

When Sonic Youth wrote music, we would rehearse for months before anybody heard anything.

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.

You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.

The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.

Golf's not an easy game. You keep working at it and, sooner or later, something good will happen.

My guitar sound pretty much came from discovering there was reverb on my little practice amp and really loving the mood it created.

Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.

As far as how I expressed 'practice, practice, practice' over and over again, I wouldn't take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.

What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.

I often do crazy siren noises, or, like, a high-pitched dolphin, just to make sure that all my range is there. I make random noise and blurt out random sounds, to make sure I get rid of any bad nerves. I want to make sure to feel as confident as possible.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

Discover how wonderful you are. Love who you are, with all your faults. Focus on the unique gifts you bring to the people around you, to the world. Making this a daily practice will shift your life.

Someone who does not practice what he preaches expresses only hypocrisy.

Believers if opt to practice Favoritism will fail miserably to build a relationship of Mutual Trust & True Respect for themselves.

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

I do not know anything about luck, apart from that the more I practice, the luckier I get.

We first make our habits, and our habits then make us.

Fracassos são só tentativas em um treino".

If a man preach the Golden Rule as a sound rule of conduct his words will fall upon deaf ears if he does not practice that which he preaches. The most effective sermon that any man can preach on the soundness of the Golden Rule is that which he preaches, by suggestion, when he applies this rule in his relationships with his fellow men.

The intelligent practice of self-control, quickly leads to a knowledge of one's interior thought-forces, and, later on, to the acquisition of that power by which they are rightly employed and directed.

Education consists, not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently APPLIED.

whatever you have, you use it or you lose it!