Quotes About Practice

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

I tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

There are no shortcuts to good golf. The better players realize this.

I'm not a good enough musician to like completely master something in a couple of days and turn it around.

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn't make you good. Writing badly does.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.

You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.

To be a good writer... read a lot and write every day.

Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

People should find what approach really speaks to them, and then do it. Obviously, better with a good teacher, who can help you on the path. But in any case, basic principles.

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good. You would deny me the practice of it. Mierda! I should have left you on the comet.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.