Quotes About Practice

But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.

A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

In war, no matter how much you plan and prepare and practice, when the big day actually arrives, you still can't find your ass with both hands.

Why bother to have a technical term for a religious ritual?

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. —Confucius

Do you know about lock picking?" "I'm sure it's like sex." "I'm sure it's not like sex." "How would you know? Everything's like sex. It's the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And it's not for want of trying. Over the centuries, many people - theologians as well scientists - have tried to explore points of intersection. And anytime anyone has declared that harmony has risen up, it is the consequence of religion acquiescing to scientific discovery. In every single case.

Samuel L. Lewis] ... [I]n a world claiming to be Christian to some degree, no teachings have been more ignored than the social proclamations of Jesus. This can no longer be. The dualism between theory and practice has created a chasm in the body politic, the wound of which can no longer be healed.

Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practising it.

Scougal argued that this consisted not primarily in intellectual belief or in moral practice, but in a spiritual union between the soul and God, in which God's very life was transfused into a person.

It's no good to do a piece once and then move on because it doesn't have time to develop. I try to play seven or eight concerti in a season, and generally one or two of those are new for me.

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.

I trained for a month and learnt all the basic moves at a wrestling school in Amritsar, Punjab. Wrestling is pretty easy.

Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised.

I'm a big fan of rituals in general because I'm a firm believer in muscle memory.

When it comes to basketball you always want to put the ball in the hole. You want to get as consistent and get that muscle memory right and be consistent.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

By the time I sat down to write 'Family Pictures,' I hadn't written anything in almost two years, and writing, I have discovered, is a muscle: if it isn't exercised, it will atrophy.

Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.