1,113 Quotes About Practice

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.

It's something I've been working on for a long time, it just wasn't working tonight. But it's not something I'm going to get too worried about. I'll just go out and work on it at practice tomorrow.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

We're resting up. We'll just have another practice instead.