Quotes About Practice

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.

Shooting is all about confidence.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

To gain confidence, constant practice is essential. Just as a musician needs to practice regularly to retain his touch, the watercolourist needs to be constantly in touch with the medium.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

The cool thing about playing is that the more you do it, the better you get.

It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Courage is like—it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.

Christians tend to be Augustinian in theory but Pelagian in practice. They work obsessively to please other people and even God.

Now he must put into practice all his fine poetic thoughts about romantic love.

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