Quotes About Practice

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

I love the clothes, I love the discipline. It's all encompassing. You play golf for two hours and you feel like you went on a two-hour vacation. It's like meditation.

As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

Every rep I can get is valuable.

Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

They met each morning with a group of the followers for a time of thanksgiving and supplication, a practice maintained by members of their group throughout Jerusalem.

A soldier's life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We're here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice than trenching hard ground with a spade.

The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they've written, they write some more.

The most perfect synthesis of theory and practice is the vanishing of thought into the actual course of the world.

Sometimes things that seem like good ideas in theory, in practice turn out to be the worst kinds of boneheaded blunders.

My experience has been that times always ends. In theory, you are right, the quantum physicists are right, the religious and romantics are right. Time without end. In practice we both wear a watch.

In theory you are right... Time without end. In practice we both wear a watch.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

La jeunesse est le temps d'étudier la sagesse; la vieillesse est le temps de la pratiquer.

The continual emotion that is felt in the theater excites us, enervates us, enfeebles us, and makes us less able to resist our passions. And the sterile interest taken in virtue serves only to satisfy our vanity without obliging us to practice it.

aunque nazca uno con algún talento, el arte de escribir no se aprende repentinamente. Remití

Me preguntó si había copiado música alguna vez. Respondíle que a menudo, y era la verdad: el mejor modo como podía aprenderla era copiándola.

ils n'ont plus fait, par leurs formules, qu'une religion de mots, vu qu'il en coûte peu de prescrire l'impossible quand on se dispense de le pratiquer.

Young teacher, pray consider this example, and remember that your lessons should always be in deeds rather than words, for children soon forget what they say or what is said to them, but not what they have done nor what has been done to them.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing is out of the question.

Romans had been content to practice virtue; all was lost when they began to study it.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.