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Quotes About Practice

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.
~ Mark Nepo
To know how to live is my trade and my art.
~ Michel de Montaigne
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.
~ Phyllis Bentley
Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.
~ Pietro Aretino
Baseball is the ideal forum for teachiing the art of failure; the very best fail to get a hit seven out of ten times.
~ Unknown
High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.
~ Theodora Goss
You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn those things or you can't practice the art.
~ Tod Machover
As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
~ Tony Kushner
I've always been interested in martial arts.
~ Tracy Spiridakos
There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.
~ Veronica Roth
Your first 10, 000 photographs are your worst.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.
~ Unknown
Learn to work on your work.
~ Unknown
He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.
~ John Fowles, The Collector
A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.
~ Amit Kalantri
Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it's a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.
~ Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
Tarot is a practice rich with history and cultural knowledge. It is a science of the mind.
~ Benebell Wen
The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.
~ Alan W. Watts
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
~ Pat Summitt
Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.
~ Debbie Macomber
NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind
~ Richard Bandler
With constant practice, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one's self useful to himself and all mankind.
~ Dharma Mittra