Quotes About Practice

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.

For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.

It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.