Quotes About Practice

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

No matter what the weather was, I would practice for five hours every morning and evening, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. It was this disciplined routine that moulded me into the athlete I became.

I spent thousands of thousands of hours playing the piano, and by thousands of hours, I mean playing in cover bands or wedding bands or disco bands or original bands or playing cabaret for Todd McKenney.

My strength is short game. I love the creative side to it. You can hit a wedge a million different ways. The flop is my fave.

I like using a 75-percent swing for wedge shots instead of full force.

I remember my first practice, from Pee Wee football when I was, like, 10, and I didn't know what was going on.

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for 'Six Feet Under', last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

Because we're playing tournaments week in and week out I'd think to myself, 'What's the point in practising?' You have no down time to yourself and you're looking for some to spend with your family and friends. But I've now realised that with the game so cut-throat and standards going up every week, it doesn't work.

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.

I practise about three to four hours a day and I will play one night a week, or at the weekend in a competition.

My calculus teacher would send me home every weekend with 400 problems to solve. At the time, I felt it was so strict and demanding, but now I realize that the workload instilled in me a sense of discipline, and showed me that even if I wasn't inherently skilled at something, I could be, with enough dedication and practice.

Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith.

I haven't forgotten how to play football. But I need to play each weekend.

The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.

I think any success you can have on the tennis court, doubles helps. If you're playing on the weekend, you're in the trophy ceremony at the end of it, one of the last guys in the locker room, it can only give you confidence.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

Even great actors have to polish their skills and rejuvenate.