Practice Quotes

• Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • People
  • God
  • Brain

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

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Freedom
  • Practice

• 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.

  

  Bill Porter
  • Behavior
  • Rituals
  • Zen

• When I first ran for Congress, I decided that I would not take pledges to vote for or against any issue. I believe the practice of taking pledges contributes to the worst of the partisan gridlock in Washington, preventing many members of Congress from even considering a reasonable compromise offered by the other side.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Believe
  • Practice

• My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.

  

  Kenneth Chenault
  • Law
  • Practice
  • Service

• People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • People
  • Time
  • Nature

• I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Up
  • Practice

• Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

  

  Pierre Bourdieu
  • Practice
  • Logic

• I find it's only when something is trying to come through I really practice. And then, I don't know how many hours. It's all day.

  

  John Coltrane
  • Trying
  • Practice

• In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

  

  David Horowitz
  • Work
  • Society
  • Ignorance

• Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice of art itself. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Art
  • May
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • Art
  • True
  • Freedom

• Practice and practice and practice, and you'll make friends all over the world.

  

  Lionel Ferbos
  • World
  • Friends
  • Practice

• My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Church
  • Prayer
  • Sick

• What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.

  

  David Horowitz
  • Good
  • Practice

• I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Teacher

• A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Practice
  • Vulgar
  • Mechanick

• The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Hope
  • Respect
  • Lies

• Routine has nothing to do with repetition. To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Good
  • Practice

• You have to practice until you die.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Die
  • Practice

• Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Practice
  • Path

• I practice a personal meditation and have a gala apple before each show.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

  

  Dave Van Ronk
  • Good
  • Practice

• I've never liked having like a set kind of schedule of training. Even when I was doing guitar lessons, I never used to practice.

  

  Dean Geyer
  • Practice
  • Training

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