Practice Quotes - Page 3

• Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to see things you never noticed before.

  Paul Laseau

  Sketching, Attention, World

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• I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Believe, Dancing

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Mean

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• We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Government, Literature, News

  Life, May 07, 1965.

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• Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

  Dogen

  Understanding, Intellectual, Speech

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

  Amy Chua

  America, Excellence, Repetition

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

  Andre Agassi

  Motivational Sports, Winning, Tennis

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• I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character never were produced, nor ever will arise, from memory alone.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Memories, Character, Excellent

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1824). “The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy : with an Original Memoir, and Anecdotes of the Author”, p.79

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• Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Success, Softball

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• Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Fall, Eye, Successful

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• Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

  Hosea Ballou

  Life, Godly, Argument

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• If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

  Nhat Hanh

  Dream, Cells, Meditation

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change". Interview with Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

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• When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

  Bill Bradley

  Inspirational, Sports, Hard Work

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• Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Success, Yoga

  BKS Iyengar (2015). “Yoga For Sports: A Journey towards Health and Healing”, p.106, Westland

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• They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Wall, Tree, Gardening

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• The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

  Periander

  Motivation, Hard Work, Acting

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by by Diogenes Laërtius, Book 1: The Seven Sages, 6, 1925.

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• Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Inspiration, Yoga Practice, Meditation Practice

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• I never stay away from workouts. I work hard. I've tried to take care of my body. I'll never look back and say that I could have done more. I've paid the price in practice, but I know I get the most out of my ability.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Workout, Hard Work, Looks

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• Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Twenties, Workshops, Polish

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• Practice ur craft and make it the best it can possibly be-Justin Timberlake

  Justin Timberlake

  Crafts, Justin

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• To gain confidence, constant practice is essential. Just as a musician needs to practice regularly to retain his touch, the watercolourist needs to be constantly in touch with the medium.

  Robert A. Lovett

  Musician, Essentials, Needs

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• Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Tasks, Analysis

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• Always think about practice... theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work.

  Felix Gonzalez-Torres

  Thinking, Way, Theory

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