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Quotes About Practice

The best advice I could give someone trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.
~ Bob Newhart
The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.
~ Bonnie Jo Campbell
I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.
~ Brene Brown
I work on my voice through what I have to sing.
~ Bryn Terfel
I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.
~ Carmelo Anthony
We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.
~ Christine Lagarde
Judge [Samuel] Alito enjoys the support and respect of the people who work with him, practice with him and, therefore, know him best.
~ Chuck Grassley
It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.
~ Dalai Lama
To get the music the way you want it, there's a lot of work involved.
~ Unknown
The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.
~ David Bayles
If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.
~ David Duchovny
My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.
~ David Ortiz
The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.
~ Dean Koontz
All of the products I take help me feel like I'm getting the maximum amount out of my workouts and out of my practice work. They're a big part of preparing and recovering each week.
~ Drew Brees
And, I wouldn't consider myself to be a natural pilot; I've had to work at it.
~ Duane G. Carey
I think that work has been the key for me. Just like they say shooting will become easy if you just keep working at it, well, I love the dribble game-that brings excitement to the game.
~ Dwyane Wade
I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique.
~ Eric Hernandez
I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.
~ Evan Parker
Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning
~ Ferreira Gullar
Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.
~ Fred Couples
If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.
~ Frederick Lenz
Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.
~ Frederick Lenz
Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.
~ Frederick Lenz
Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.
~ Frederick Lenz