Practice Quotes

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].

There are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Speed is a byproduct of good, slow practice.

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.

study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Mind is everything. What we think, we become.

The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.

You don't show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

From now on, I want you to practice reframing other people's negativity as a reminder of how not to be.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability.

Practice peace, change your world.

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.

I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world.