Practice Quotes

It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.

My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

I don't get writer's block. I don't try to write anything; when something comes, I write it. I just practice and when I get an idea I write it down.

There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.

What is virtue? Reason in practice.

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

After a great game or a great practice, man, I feel on top of the world.

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.

Focus on someone else’s problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on you’ll have to live in a world you didn’t make up. Horrible thought.

Singing is actually something that I practice almost every day and definitely at the top of my inspirational list.

Flow is letting nothing obstruct the breath. Practice flow through a complete exhale in every way in your being.

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

Each day you don't practice is one more day you have to practice to get better. The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices.

If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.

The quiet of the morning offers a perfect time to do a meditation and yoga practice. It also allows time to be creative or to contemplate before the business of the day.

When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

Practices were tough.

I needed to go to class; I needed to go to practice; I needed to have a life away from basketball.

Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.

Killing time takes practice.

Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.

Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice.

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.

He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.

I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.

Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.

It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we stop flinching, we practice overriding our Can't.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably.

I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.

I'm really going to do my homework. I'm going to be down there on the practice tee finding out if a guy's wife beat him up the night before, important stuff like that. Stuff that people want to know.