Quotes About Practice

Innovation takes practice more than talent.

Imagine yourself doing what is best for you. Commit yourself to excellence. Transform yourself with dedication to excellence, from daily self-improvement and practice. Enjoy the process.

It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing.

Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your 'practice' should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.

God doesn't care how well you can preach about forgiveness… what He looks at is your behavior when presented the opportunity to practice it.

Practice transforms a skill into an art

Practice diligence, intelligence will follow you.

All the spiritual knowledge in the world is for naught unless you walk your talk.

For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it.

I have no individual goals. We play for one reason and that's to win the title. Practice is more important than the games, and I will practice when I'm hurt, when 95 percent of the players in this league would sit out. I expect all of you to do the same thing. You will follow my lead." – Michael Jordan

Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.

Den, som tror på mig, han skal også gøre de gerninger, jeg gør, ja, han skal gøre endnu større gerninger, thi jeg går til Faderen.' (Joh. 14:12). I årevis plagede dette mig, ikke fordi jeg ikke troede på det, men fordi jeg ikke så det i praksis. Hvordan kunne jeg gøre 'større gerninger' end Jesus? Men i dag forstår jeg, at Jesus ikke hentydede til gerninger, som var større i art, men i omfang.

I don't train to be in a gunfight; I'd much rather be in a shooting—there's a difference. A gunfight means he's shooting back at me. In a shooting, I'm doing all the work.

ritual del oryoki.

The second phrase was gaman, which means to find some physical practice such as meditation, calligraphy, or the making of art that would help one persevere in the face of what seemed unbearable.

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

Writing is a craft which can be learned like any other. It is not, as some believe, a mystical gift granted only to a fortunate few. Writing simply involves a good deal of time, intense labor and, most of all, self-discipline.

You see, in the morning I always practice imagination for an hour or two. It does me lots of good.

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

The best cultures derive from actions people actually take, not the ones they write about in a mission statement.