1,113 Quotes About Practice

I think practice what you preach is a half-baked cop out as you need to do more than practice as only when you do will you have the right to preach it

If you don't [practice], any gifts or talents you do have won't emerge where people can see them.

Remember that pianist who said that if he did not practice every day he would know, if he did not practice for two days, the critics would know, after three days, his audience would know.

You are what you do, so you have to do what you want to be. We are how we spend our time. If you want to be super good at texting and watching Netflix, you should text and watch Netflix all day—'cause you'll get really good at it. If, in your dreams, you would rather be good at something else, then you should spend your time doing that thing. Don't wait for it to come to you. You are how you spend your time.

Like any craft, writing is mastered by practice and patience, and if one has any “knack” for it at all, that very knack—paradoxically—can explicate everything under the sun but itself.

One can conceive and perceive all subjects; however, it may not bring into practice all of those.

Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Repeat the same mistakes over and over, and you don't get any closer to Carnegie Hall.

Like the tiny droplets of water make the huge ocean!, similarly little daily doses of practice will take you to greater glories.

Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.