Quotes About Practice

Nothing built by man has ever improved on the ancient classic fingertip pushup

The husband who is having his fourteenth affair won't worry much about getting caught. He is practiced in deceit. He knows what to anticipate and how to cover it.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

You must also understand that with muscle memory, at least two to three thousand repetitions are necessary to help master a simple skill.

As noted earlier, current theory states that it takes two thousand to three thousand repetitions to master a physical act or develop physical "muscle memory." I believe it takes an equal amount of "mental muscle memory" to ingrain a thought process or act.

The potent mix of Nietzschean philosophy, psychology, history, and clinical practice was leading him into new territory

To become really good at anything,you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.

The art of love is like your painting, it requires technique, patience, and above all, practice by the couple. It requires boldness, the courage to go beyond what people conventionally call making love.

There is only one way to learn. It's through action.

good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.

Each arrow leaves a memory in your heart, and it is the sum of those memories that will make you shoot better and better.

Up until then, travel and the idea of going far away had just been a dream, and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people--preferably our parents, our spouses or our children--for our failure to realize our dreams.

There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action.

Iga asi on rituaal. Hoolikalt välja töötatud rituaal, mida igaüks püüab võimalikult täpselt sooritada, sest ta kardab, et kui mõni osa välja jääb, läheb kõik valesti. Selle rituaali nimi on rutiin.

Start your practice with the most technically demanding exercises, e.g. the two hands anyhow. Do not engage in any endurance activities before your kettlebell practice.

Ludvig Chaplinskiy wrote in the Russian magazine Hercules in 1913, "Kettlebell lifting more than any other sport relies on nerve strength; its sensible practice strengthens the nervous system, mindless practice destroys it.

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.

Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you're this person you really respect.

I'd like to encourage us all to lighten up, to practice with a lot of gentleness. This is not the drill sergeant saying, "Lighten up or else." I have found that if we can possibly use anything we hear against ourselves, we usually do.

IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually see each and every little movement of mind—changing, changing, changing.

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. How do we practice with difficulty, with our emotions, with the unpredictable encounters of an ordinary day?