Quotes About Practice

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.

All of you have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

That is how science and medicine are practiced best, though—we are best when we admit our ignorance up front, and then attempt to fill the darkness of not-knowing with the light of information and knowledge.

Real success or victory is measured by the quality of that very process of attention and mindful involvement, practice, and commitment.

Practicing qigong is so simple and so powerful. You cannot do it wrong. You can only do it good, better, or best.

Jangan bikin kepalamu menjadi perpustakaan. Pergunakan pengetahuanmu untuk diamalkan - Swarni Vivekananda

He who emphasizes the ritual of faith can lose the point of faith.

Thankfully, when working with between one and five students, formal instruction and practice can be much richer, as well as more targeted. Thus 2 structured hours of instruction and practice can cover more content than a full industrial school day.

The rosary is not a spiritual practice to be perfected with effort. It is a devotion that reminds us of our connection to a Mother whose very body is our planet and our home.

The aim of Zen practice is not to escape or transcend life's discomfort. Zen practice is about plunging into the mystery of daily life just as it is.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...

You like to think memory goes far back though remembering was never recommended. Forget all that, the world says. The world's had a lot of practice.

We need to distinguish between a home that is considered Christian primarily because cultural Christianity happens there and a home that is Christian because Christ is alive and present in perceptible ways. Here's the reality that needs to be affirmed: A distinctively Christian home can never be defined only by what the children are doing; it must be defined by what the parents are doing.

I couldn't practice feng shui if I didn't believe in it, and I wouldn't believe in it if I hadn't seen it work.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

if you want to understand what a science is, you should look in the first in­stance not at its theories or its findings, and certainly not at what its apologists say about it; you should look at what the practitioners of it do.

To play the violin it is necessary to possess certain habits, skills, knowledge, and talents, to be in the mood to play, and (as the old joke goes) to have a violin. But violin playing is neither the habits, skills, knowledge and so on, nor the mood, nor . . . the violin.

Religion is not the existence of knowing, but the practice of persistence by insisting.

Religion is what you do and what you are.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

Be loyal to your daily practice. Keep working. And keep knocking on the door. As you'll remember, it is said in one of Rumi's most pithy moments that the door we're knocking on opens from the inside.