Quotes About Practice

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

The way is in training.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

You haven't prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.