Quotes About Practice

People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

You are what you repeatedly do

Do more than believe: practice.

You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.

It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.

The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.

A task which seems difficult, can be done with adequate training.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

If I don't practice for a day, I know it. If I don't practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don't practice for three days, the public knows it.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It's because we're different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.