Quotes About Practice

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet.

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

I'm great at fake typing but in real life terrible.

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school.

On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.

The best class I ever took in high school was typing.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it.

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That's what I did.

There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.

There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment. You keep trying to master this very basic thing, and when you don't get it, you just scream. I broke a lot of drum heads, and I broke a lot of sticks.

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.

The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression.

I have this unbeatable move where no matter what happens I can catch the line - it's the number one thing I practice - so my philosophy there is martial arts based, never putting myself in a position where I can receive a lethal blow. I haven't missed catching the line for over fifteen years.

I think it takes an unbelievable amount of hours for anybody to master their craft.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.