Practice Quotes

• When I was 12, I was taking batting practice with an aluminum bat at Tiger Stadium. I don't know where it landed exactly, but upper deck somewhere. Yeah, people were surprised.

  

  Prince Fielder
  • People
  • Practice
  • Tiger

• I like to be with my children - not just quality time, but quantity time. I like to be there in the morning when they're waking up. I like to practice piano with them. I like to be there at supper. I need them as much as they need me. Working is not as important to me as being a mother is.

  

  Jane Kaczmarek
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• No practice exists in isolation.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Practice
  • Exist
  • Isolation

• The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Play
  • Practice
  • Case

• Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
  • Needs
  • States
  • Treasure

• Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Simple
  • Present
  • Listening

• The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.

  

  Dainin Katagiri
  • Life
  • Important
  • Spiritual

• I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.

  

  Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Kids
  • Attention
  • Car

• I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • Job
  • Practice

• 'The Practice' is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the first few seasons of that show were amazing, and then when they started winning the big case, it just got less interesting.

  

  Alec Berg
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Long
  • Attention

• Things are useless without practice.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Practice
  • Erykah
  • Badu

• It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

  

  Jim McKelvey
  • Time
  • Challenge
  • Bored

• I try to sleep as much as I can. I drink a lot of water. I practice consistently and just try to be ready for the gig.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Water
  • Sleep
  • Practice

• We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Action
  • Path
  • Walking

• Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Practice
  • Shots
  • Match

• Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

  

  Ahmad Jamal
  • Jazz
  • Means
  • Improvisation

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

  

  Elizabeth Joan Smith
  • Life
  • High
  • Value

• To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Practice
  • Mundane
  • True Value

• I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Fall

• To think is to practice brain chemistry.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Brain
  • Practice

• Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

  

  Jimmy Reid
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Game
  • Free
  • Respect

• My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • She
  • Team
  • Dad

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