Quotes About Practice

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.

I don't think there's any substitute for experience.

The only thing I can think of was an incident one day when I did get angry with the substitutes for talking behind the goal while we were practising free-kicks - I told them to pay attention because we might need them during the match. That was something I always insisted on.

There is nothing you can substitute for reps and carries in a game.

You need 100 percent concentration on golf to succeed.

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

Do them anyway - you can never spend enough time on the basics.

Creativity is a habit and the best creativity is the result of good work habits

As Mozart himself wrote to a friend, "People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell. The

get busy copying... travelling the paths of greatness, even in someone else's footprints, is a vital means of acquiring a skill.

Art is a vast democracy of habit.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

Arguing about religion is much easier than practicing it.

Golf, more than most games, has a number of cliches, often successfully disguised as "tips"

Golf is an easy game...It's just hard to play