Quotes About Practice

Life is an art not to be learned by observation.

Nothing is more to mastery than practice and skills. Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.

Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.

The gold and scarlet leaves that littered the countryside in great drifts whispered and chuckled among themselves, or took experimental runs from place to place, rolling like coloured hoops among the trees. It was as if they were practising something, preparing for something, and they would discuss it excitedly in rustly voices as they crowded round the tree trunks.

I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

when rightly practiced, asceticism is the human component of the mysterious incarnate intimacy of human intention and divine grace which holds the only real hope of victory over attachment. Like

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

The work will teach you how to do it.

All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.

It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law.

Life is the only art that we are required to practise without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.

It's good to play, and you must keep in practice.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber's.

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and the other which we practice but seldom preach.

You know what you do when you shit, singing is the same thing, only up!

Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.

Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!