Quotes About Practice

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.

If your religion does not work at home, don't export it.

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any more work. I don't want extra study.

There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.

Prayer is the key discipline whereby all spiritual work is done.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Remember that this is not something we do just once or twice. Interrupting our destructive habits and awakening our heart is the work of a lifetime.

If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

The real work is in the practice.

The harder you work when nobody's watching the less you bleed when it's time to perform.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.