Quotes About Practice

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Nothing is more powerful than habit.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

On how to become a good speaker: Practice all the time. One of the best ways is to put a bunch of marbles in your mouth while you talk. Slowly but surely you take away a marble. And then, when you've lost all your marbles, you're a public speaker.

Law and love are the same - romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.

Principles become modified in practise by facts.

I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

The way you get better at playing football is to play football.

I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

One may even state for that true success in all Magic a thorough grounding in Yoga technique is an absolute essential.

The bottom line intention of Trust is this: You must commit to building your trust muscles on a daily basis through spiritual practice. Because trust is an inner process, the development and deepening of trust can happen only within you. That is why a consistent spiritual practice is so critical. It is the means by which you can reach the point within yourself where you know and accept that no matter what happens, you will be okay. You

Mindfulness cultivates our ability to do things knowing that we're doing them.

Art is progressive; the more you do it, the better you get. I defy anyone to write fifteen short stories and not have story #15 be at least marginally better than story #1. It's simply not possible. Setting a date-certain for surrender often results in giving up just as you're starting to get good at your craft.