1,113 Quotes About Practice

[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until it can't go wrong.

Practices were tough.

He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.

That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we stop flinching, we practice overriding our Can't.

I work on that in practice all the time. But I usually don't have to use it much.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.