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Quotes About Practice

CANDY AND ALESSA are practicing in the storeroom. One of them is burning through "Miserlou" and the other sounds like she's falling down the stairs with a boxful of cats. But she keeps playing. Good for her.
~ Richard Kadrey
People believe they lack will power, but will power is not something you either have or don't, like blue eyes. Instead, it's a skill, like tennis or typing. You have to train your nervous system as you would train your muscles and reflexes. You have to take yourself to the psychic gym—but with the certainty that each time you practice an alternative behavior, you've made it easier to do next time.
~ Richard O'Connor
Each day's practice does some good, and if you slip and fall off your diet or exercise program or mindfulness practice, all that you have learned before is not undone; it's still there in your brain waiting for you to get back in the saddle.
~ Richard O'Connor
we can reprogram our own brains through focused practice of any new skill, through attending to ourselves in a mindful, noncritical way.
~ Richard O'Connor
Seeing trumps hearing, but doing trumps seeing!
~ Richard Pascale
a thousand hearings aren't worth one seeing, and a thousand seeings aren't worth one doing).
~ Richard Pascale
The theory and practice of socialism, and its offshoot, communism, postulate that all the existing ways of humanity are irrational and that it is the mission of those in the know to make out of them something radically different: mankind's entire past is but a long detour on the road to its true destiny.
~ Richard Pipes
The practice of science was not itself a science; it was an art, to be passed from master to apprentice as the art of painting is passed or as the skills and traditions of the law or of medicine are passed.
~ Richard Rhodes
Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?
~ Richard Rosen
Surgeons scan patient parts and print models of them, to practice on before operating in earnest.
~ Richard Susskind
Principles and Practice of Radiesthesia
~ Richard Webster
Today, the pendulum is the most used item in the dowser's toolkit.
~ Richard Webster
Collectivizing risk and considering the community as a whole rather than the individual was a form of "communism," but the practice paradoxically allowed people to maintain their belief in individualism. Probability could compensate for the limits of human knowledge.
~ Richard White
I found that joy can be acquired like a habit, in the same way as a folded sheet of paper falls naturally into the same fold.
~ Richard Wurmbrand
Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)
~ Richelle Mead
What's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They're still killing me in group practice." "Maybe you should hit harder.
~ Richelle Mead
I'll see you later Roza." "At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean you still have things to teach me." Standing in the doorway, he looked over at me and smiled. "Yes. Lots of things.
~ Richelle Mead
Of course they didn't give us this much, Sage. But I had to make sure I nailed my first assignment. Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try.
~ Richelle Mead
God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while." Smiling, he returned to his chair. "I know. You kept telling me that while I was carrying you. You were very upset." "You...you carried me here?" "After we broke the bench apart and freed your foot." Man. I'd missed out on a lot. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.
~ Richelle Mead
I wished the kiss could have gone on forever. Breaking the embrace, he ran a few fingers through my hair and down my cheek. He stepped back toward the door. "I'll see you later, Roza" "At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean, you still have things to teach me." "Yes. Lots of things.
~ Richelle Mead
Rose Hathaway: "what's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They're still killing me in group practice." Dimitri Belikov: "Maybe you should hit harder.
~ Richelle Mead
What do you think, little dhampir? I was pretty badass with that plant, wasn't I? Of course, it would have been more badass if I'd, I dunno, helped an amputee grow a limb back. Or maybe separated Siamese twins. But that'll come with more practice.
~ Richelle Mead
Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try.
~ Richelle Mead
Interpretar sin aplicar es lo mismo que abortar!»
~ Rick Warren