Practice Quotes

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

We must patiently practice every day.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused."

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Continue this practice no matter what happens or what anyone does to you.

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Habits are changed by practicing new behaviors, and this is true for mental habits as well.

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

To know and not to do is not yet to know.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.

What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

Skill to do comes of doing.

"Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography; they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try."

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

We have to practice to become perfect.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

People are rewarded in public for what the practice for years in private.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.