1,113 Quotes About Practice

It's all about Perfection or the tolerance of Imperfection

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

Human potential is the ability of a person or humanity to put their theoretical abilities into practice

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening of the current, is the practice of rivers. In navigating by the glow of the Milky Way, the practice of light. In steadying with a staff, the practice of wood.

The old adage we usually hear is that “practice makes perfect.” Based on what we know about neuroplasticity and deliberate practice, we should rephrase that to read, “practice makes permanent.” As you organize yourself for this self-reflective prep work, remember that it is not about being perfect but about creating new neural pathways that shift your default cultural programming as you grow in awareness and skill.

The people who move forward and overcome their fears do not have some special powers or a magic pill they take; they just have more practice in facing their fears.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

Every person should have the right to practice and believe what they want, as long as it does not infringe on another person’s freedom.