Quotes About Practice

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

Debates require a lot of hard work and preparation. If you try to wing it, it shows.

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

The best critique of what is wrong is the practice of something better. So let's stop complaining about the church we've experienced and work on becoming the church we dream of.

I work hard. I like to practice. I like to win. I want to be the best.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.