Practice Quotes

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It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such… — John Quincy Adams
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have… — Thomas Boswell
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… — Martha Graham
With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique. — Paul Gauguin
I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice. — Henri Rousseau
If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and… — Charles Kettering
What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC… — Pamela Anderson
I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to… — John C. Maxwell
If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some… — Chogyam Trungpa
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude… — Chogyam Trungpa
Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom immediately… — Hakuin Ekaku
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. — Dogen
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… — Joshua Reynolds
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get… — Cennino Cennini
Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt. — Sathya Sai Baba
Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested. — Sathya Sai Baba
Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. — Sathya Sai Baba
Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have been which are… — Joshua Reynolds
In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may… — Joshua Reynolds

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