Quotes About Practice

Un écrivain professionnel est un amateur qui n'a pas renoncé.

Why is it, Jonathan puzzled, that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?

You don't need me any longer. You need to keep finding yourself, a little more each day, that real, unlimited Fletcher Seagull. He's your instructor. You need to understand him and to practice him.

I guess it´s safe to say that practice makes perfect. It makes sense, then, to be careful what you practice

True happiness comes not when we get rid of all out problems, but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.

Compassion is something you can develop with practice. It involves two things: intention and action.

I guess it´s safe to say that practice makes perfect. It makes sense, then, to be careful what you practice. (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, 1997)

But whether it succeeds in practice or not, any germ-line replicator is potentially immortal. It 'aspires' to immortality but in practice is in danger of failing.

The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific question, even if it is not in practice—or not yet—a decided one.

Psychologists tell us that in order to learn from experience, two ingredients are necessary: frequent practice and immediate feedback.

I need to discuss science vs. engineering. Put glibly: In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.

Almost all professionals are slow to use their own expertise for their own work.

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result—ruthlessness in political life.

Every skill must be practised. Every act rehearsed. A blade is only a blade when it cuts.

It was beginning to feel practised.

Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms.

Optimism is a practiced choice.

The first trick, the one I am practicing now, is to just start where you are. It's a luxury to be in the mood to write. It's a blessing but it's not a necessity. Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. FRIEDRICH ENGELS

QUESTION: Do you know how old I'll be by the time I learn to play the piano? ANSWER: The same age you will be if you don't.

I learned to just show up to the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping ... I didn't have to be in the mood ... Good, bad? None of my business. I wasn't doing it.

In order to do something well, we must first be willing to do it badly.

operational proof...it's all theory until you see for yourself whether or not something works.

We knew from our reading of great literature that Love involved Suffering, and would happily have got in some practice at Suffering if there was an implicit, perhaps even logical, promise that Love might be on its way.