Practice Quotes
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I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.
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A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.
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Perhaps the most important thing one can discover through the practice of meditation is that the 'self'-the conventional sense of being a subject, a thinker, an experiencer living inside one's head-is an illusion.
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I believe that if you regularly make the right choice - and it takes practice; it takes effort - the more you make the right choice, the easier it gets.
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I've heard all the coaches complaining about the new CBA rules limiting padded practice. I don't like the reduction to just 15 padded practices during the season. When I coached, we always practiced in pads; and three days a week.
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Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.
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That's the thing that always stuck out to me - the idea that quantity becomes quality. I always took it to mean if you do anything enough, if you keep putting effort in, eventually something will happen, with or without you. You don't have to have faith when you start out, you just have to dedicate yourself to practice as if you have it.
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I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.
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My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.
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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.
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
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Public reformers had need first practice on their own hearts that which they purpose to try on others.
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Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.
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The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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At my first Olympics, I didn't have a contract, and I wasn't making any money. After my first Olympics, I was working at 24 Hour Fitness at the front desk. I would go to practice in the morning, run home, shower, grab some food and then go straight to work. I didn't get off of work until 10 or 11 o'clock at night.
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I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day.
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The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.
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When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.
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Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
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The real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain if you don't open your heart beyond the satisfaction of your personal emotional needs.
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A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.
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I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.
