Quotes About Practice

Whenever I have to work on my skills or add to my craft, I do theatre. It's one place where I can learn a lot as an actor.

I have to really work hard at my craft.

I probably learned most of my craft from singing to the radio.

You've got to perfect your craft.

Playing sports is a craft that has to be worked on and perfected just like anything else.

You have to train yourself, think, contemplate, and work on your craft every day.

You throw 40 times a game when you're first starting out, it's a crash course.

I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

When I don't play international cricket, I sharpen my skills at the NCA.

As I played a lot of tennis ball cricket, I used to watch Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis a lot.

As more we play cricket, the more players will learn from it.

When I was a baby, if I cried, my parents didn't give me a blanket. They gave me a ball and sent me to the little court in our backyard. I must have cried a lot because I was one of those kids who could dribble and shoot at 5 years old.

When I see somebody fall in practice or get hurt, it almost makes me want to cry.

The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.

In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

I've been dancing since I was five; I danced every day.

I am not a natural dancer.

I'm happy that people think of me as the greatest tap-dancer that ever lived. But it's just a rumor. Because the greatest dancer that ever lived knows everything, and I don't. I'm still learning. I still have a lot of work to do.

My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.

I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

Purchasing a story in order to bury it is a practice that many in the tabloid industry call 'catch and kill.'

It's hard to evolve when you only have fifteen days or three weeks to practice and correct and change tactics.