Quotes About Practice

You can never know your lines well enough, and you better listen.

With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

You get down, but you have to pick your teammates up. Good things are eventually going to happen. There's no way around that for your team if you practice well enough.

I can't play piano well enough without making mistakes.

Flirtation is something that should be practiced very regularly. Flirtation is like taking a nice walk. You do it as a form of exercise, but it also contributes most highly to your well-being.

In order to become a well-rounded musician, you have to master the three major aspects of guitar playing: the technical side, the musical side and the creative side.

Wellness, I came to realize, will not happen by accident. It must be a daily practice, especially for those of us who are more susceptible to the oppressiveness of the world.

I wept my way through teaching practice.

WVSOM graduates more physicians annually than both West Virginia University and Marshall University and more than half of the primary care physicians practicing in West Virginia are graduates of the Osteopathic School.

Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

When we're flat out playing darts, really that's my practice because we play practically every day of the week and then when I'm home I like to have some downtime with the family.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

What is common sense isn't common practice.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.