Practice Quotes

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until it can't go wrong.

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.

Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.

Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.

Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior

The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

While I have the utmost respect for people who practice the Christian faith, the fact is, as everyone knows, I am as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

Practice experiencing your feelings directly and completely by observing them as they move through your mind and body and then letting them go.

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

I feel like I'm getting stronger and stronger, and I don't practice as much as I used to.

Practice moderation in all things except love.

Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.

The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity

Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

I've found that techniques and practices of energy medicine offer healings that are often quicker, safer, and more effective than many better known healing practices.

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".

We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

I don't believe there is such a thing as 'moderate Islam.' I think it's better to talk about degrees of belief and degrees of practice.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

Practice is the path of mastery.

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.

If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.

I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices.

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.