Practice Quotes

I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.

I was conscripted to military service, and my gut feeling was to refuse to serve. I did not want to kill other people. This seemed to me wrong, if not in principle, so at least in practice.

I'm just not a great practice player.

First of all, the majority of us, regardless of what we may say, are capitalists. That is, we practice it, it's what we "do," it's how we live, we are capitalists.

When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?" she says. "Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.

I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.

Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it.

Especially in this Internet age, routine practices are being exposed and rightly recognized as harsh and cruel.

I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

Make it a practice to kick yourself for every time you answer your children with the words NOT RIGHT NOW.

At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.

Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

Style comes only have long, hard practice and writing.

If you have played "six times wrong, one time right" the problem is not quite corrected.

Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.

Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.

With my schedule, I don't have much time to get to yoga classes, but I do keep a mat in my trailer and practice for a few minutes most days. It keeps me centered.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.

Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher.

I was unprepared for the firsthand experience of mindfulness. The way that awareness … revealed a sense of well-being right there in the heat of my emotions.

When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.