Quotes About Practice

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

Why is it that the most fundamental life lesson—LIVE!—is the only one I continually forget to put into practice?

I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn't enough. It's the practice of honoring and caring for another that's noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part.

It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be better able to stand together for what we believe and for what we love, who may someday need our support.

Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

There is no attribute of the superior man greater than his helping men to practice virtue.

front of the part-chooserers. I am going to practise my lines ALL WEEKEND! Good night, Diary.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it." Mia Hamm quote

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.

Modern armies are obsessed with the military learning cycle, of learning from past 'best practice' and mistakes. The problem is which part of the past provides the lessons.

It is really striking," says Gary Snyder, "that so very many people at Zen Center reject the term religion when it is applied to what they are doing. What is any religion? A little ritual, a little superstition, and some magic. That's Buddhism.

Do not harm. This is the first precept, or obligatory rule for behavior, given to a Zen Buddhist during lay ordination, a ceremony that marks a period of sincere practice, typically a year, with a teacher and other practitioners. If the first precept was not clear to the Abbot, what had been transmitted to him from the ancient lineage of dharma teachers ?

When Japanese Zen monks began to marry in the nineteenth century (and almost all of them are married today), they gave up the defining practice of monasticism—celibacy, aloneness. But they refused to turn in their costumes or close their theaters. Instead, they altered the forms.

We have given this country the spiritual will and the moral maturity it lost in the bitter divorce of principle and practice. Our nation can only reach its best

Twelve days wil be heaps of time. You don't want to over-reherse these things, otherwise you lose that rough edge

Dr. Ornish "realized reimbursement is a much more powerful determinant of medical practice than research."97

reimbursement is a much more powerful determinant of medical practice than research."97

Try eating with chopsticks. Even in experienced hands, they tend to slow eating rate.