Quotes About Practice

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

Spiritual theology is what pastors do—give themselves to getting what we know about God/Jesus lived in the round of ordinary life.

the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

If a passage occurs twice it is played slower the second time; if three times, still slower.

He fixed his eyes on my fingers while I played to him, then said suddenly, My God; I work at it till I sweat and yet get no success - while you, my friend, simply play at it! Yes, said I, but I too had to work in order that I might be exempt from work now.

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

I, like a fatuous dunce who didn't realize how bad I was, jumped right in with the confidence of a true know-nothing. I practiced

the shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be: and if you observe, you will find that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. 

no speech of admonition can be so fine that it will all at once make those who hear it good men if they are not good already; it would surely not make archers good if they had not had previous practice in shooting; neither would it make lancers good, nor horsemen; it cannot even make men able to endure bodily labour, unless they have been trained to it before.

That the Life of Man may at all Times and Seasons, even in Afflictions, and in all Sorts of Circumstances, be universally employed in the Practice of Philosophy.

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans. Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

Swimming instruction, which in time became swimming practice, was gruelling, but there was the deep pleasure of doing a stroke with increasing ease and speed, over and over, till hypnosis practically, the water turning from molten lead to liquid light.

Yes! Practice-singular!' the wise men screamed in unison. Three index fingers, like punctuation marks, jumped to attention in the air to emphasize their point (Life of Pi 68).

Patience and kindness don't show up on demand; they're disciplines that require constant practice, and there is no better boot camp for learning those skills than hitching your survival to your ability to discern—and respect—the needs of another creature

Running is the same way. Learn it wrong, and you'll never know how good it can feel.

Think of these runs as dance rehearsals rather than exercise: your goal is to master moves and rhythm, not just bash out distance.

educated on the craft. If this is the first book you have read on the craft,

In my own pursuits I have drawn heavily from four traditional yoga texts: the Siva Samhita, the Goraksa Sataka, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, and Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines as translated by Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup.

Genocide has been a basic mechanism of empire and the national state since their inception and remains widely practiced in "advanced" and "civilized" areas.

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work

I always thought that inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.