Quotes About Practice

The tee drill should be a fixture in your hitting schedule, even after you think you've mastered everything there is to master in my system. There are major leaguers who hit off the tee every day before games, and even on their days off. Tony Gwynn works diligently at his fundamentals by hitting hundreds of balls off the tee every day.

That's essentially what Zen practice is about: functioning from moment to moment.

Who knows how we should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.

In practice, we return over and over again to perception, to just sitting. Practice is just hearing, just seeing, just feeling.

Practice is not a trimming on your life. Practice is the foundation. If that's not there nothing else will be there.

When we discover Zen practice, we may hold out a hope that it is going to solve our problems and make our life perfect. But Zen practice simply returns us to life as it is. Being our lives more and more is what Zen practice is about. Our lives are simply what they are, and Zen helps us to recognize that fact. The thought If I do this practice patiently enough, everything will be different is simply another belief system, another version of the promise that is never kept.

Zazen is actually not complicated. The real problem is, we don' t want to do it. If my boyfriend begins to look at other women, how long am I going to be willing simply to experience that? We all have problems constantly, but our willingness just to be is very low on our list of priorities, until we have practiced long enough to have faith in just being, so that solutions can appear naturally. Another mark of a maturing practice is the development of such trust and faith.

anybody who would dismiss them as mere tinkering would have to be a very committed adversary indeed! And he would have to demonstrate, not merely through intellectual abstractions but by pointing to an actual system in practice somewhere which can show better results and no scandals of one form or another.

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.

Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.

I'm not a natural. I had to teach myself - or be taught - everything I do. I just spent hours and hours in the mirror mimicking Michael Jackson.

I practice for hours in front of the mirror. I constantly deliver my routine in front of my friends.

I stand in the mirror, look at the plays and try to say them to myself to get ready for the next day.

I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.

I didn't start until I was 21, and most people I know were 13 when they had their first guitar - I missed that time where you sit in your bedroom all day for years and accidentally you're doing classical training, although you're not thinking of it that way. It's not as easy, as you get older, to do all that kind of practice.

Some weeks, I'll go super-hard at practice for two straight days, but then the third day, something happens away from basketball, and I'll lose focus. I'll say, 'I just want to get through practice. I don't want to conquer it today.' But then I'll go home and realize I missed a chance to get better, and it'll bother me.

I need to get better with my 3-wood and hybrid. Those are the clubs I missed the majority of my fairways with.

Would I have been a great basketball player? No. But I think I would've been a good basketball player, one of those grinders getting eight to 10 rebounds. I would've been like Kobe and been in the gym five to seven hours a day and never missed a 10-foot jump shot. I would've been a great role player for a team.

For some reason, I never get sick. I don't know why, but I just don't. I have never missed a day of work or practice.

I can't remember missing a practice because of illness.

I hate missing dunks.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.

The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and work, and then you're just in performance mode, and then you have to just be on; the work is done, and then you just have to do it over and over again, so you're just constantly at that performance level.