Quotes About Practice

Learning cannot be disassociated from action.

We learn to do by doing.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.

The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind of approach we use.

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.

The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

Lines are very difficult to learn.

One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.