Quotes About Practice

Lo que parece diferenciar a quienes se encuentran en la cúspide de su carrera de aquéllos otros que, teniendo una capacidad similar, no alcanzan esa cota, radica en la práctica ardua y rutinaria seguida a lo largo de años y años. Y esta perseverancia depende fundamentalmente de factores emocionales, como el entusiasmo y la tenacidad frente a todo tipo de contratiempos.

all meditation methods at their root are practices in strengthening attention

The best survey of the spirit and practice of the laws of Massachusetts Bay is found in Zechariah Chafee Jr.'s brilliant introduction to the Records of the Suffolk County Court, 1671–1680, in the Colonial Society of Massachusetts Publications, Vol. XXIX.

acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

On average, at least 95 percent of what you need to know you learn on the job. This is true for doctors, lawyers, nurses, investment bankers, and everyone else.

In the state of cosmic equilibrium There is nothing to abandon or practice, No meditation or post-meditation period.

When little islands of presence cut into our moments of absence, we start to taste the difference in pleasure that presence brings us. When practice mixes with pleasure, we are not far from being definitively lost to the cause of automatism.

What a practitioner of the Tantric path quickly feels, and sometimes the very first day, is that the benefit or reward—the state of joy, space, and freedom—is not subsequent to the practice of awareness. It is, on the contrary, an integral part of it.

there is no stain, no purification, no divinity outside the Self; no practice, no ritual, and nothing separate from ourselves to attain. Consciousness is totality; totality is consciousness.

I learned from watching and I learned from doing.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

One thousand days of lessons for discipline; ten thousand days of lessons for mastery.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.

The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.

Our actions are the evidence of our belief and become the substance of our faith.

In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

I became a tabla-player at the the age of five. However, I should have learned singing also. I mean I know about singing, but I have been never practicing it.

If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.