Quotes About Practice

To practice mindfulness means to pay attention to life with an open heart. Meditation can actually help this way. Meditation is a heart-opening activity!

Change cannot be hit-or-miss. It requires constant practice.

Sometimes the point isn't to end up with something worth showing the world. Sometimes it's just rehearsal.

I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.

Spiritual warriorship is not about mastering others, but about mastering yourself. And there is no path to mastery: mastery is the path, and everyday practice…

Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.

That's the power of faith in action. It's not about talking and judging. It's about doing.

Eventually he begins to practice his new signature in the margins of the paper. He tries it in various styles, his hand unaccustomed to the angles of the N, the dotting of the two i's. He wonders how many times he has written his old name, at the top of how many tests and quizzes, how many homework assignments, how many yearbook inscriptions to friends. How many times does a person write his name in a lifetime - a million? Two million?

Une langue étrangère, c'est comme un muscle frêle, délicat. Si l'on ne s'en sert pas, il s'affaiblit.

It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

The pen isn't really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

Let every man practice the art that he knows best.

I am very conscious on a daily basis of how extraordinarily blessed I am to get to do what I do and work with the people that I work with, so I make a practice of being grateful.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.