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Quotes About Practice

English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its stupidity. And new writers buy into that.
~ Dean Wesley Smith
You can learn to write by writing.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Training is a necessary tool.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance.
~ Miroslav Volf
L'esercizio rende perfetti, ma nessuno è perfetto, quindi perché esercitarsi?
~ Green Day
To make it a habit, do it again and again until it becomes a ritual.
~ Debasish Mridha
Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
~ Rembrandt
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
~ Cennino Cennini
But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.
~ Pierre Laval
Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.
~ Frederick Lenz
Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
~ Jack Kerouac
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
~ Thich Thien-An
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
~ Jack Canfield
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
~ Aristotle
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
~ Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
~ Saadi
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.
~ Gichin Funakoshi
The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
~ Aristotle
Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.
~ Luqman
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.
~ Paul Halmos