Practice Quotes - Page 2

A hard practicing period yields a lifelong victory

Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

‎Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success.

Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening of the current, is the practice of rivers. In navigating by the glow of the Milky Way, the practice of light. In steadying with a staff, the practice of wood.

Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but more that we meditate. And then gradually to meditate more and more on what corresponds to the innermost longing of our heart. The practice of meditation . . . gradually works its magic in stilling the mind. (42)

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied.

practice makes better

The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no - an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

As a servant of love every exchange passes through the practice.

The more you practice the better you'll be, the harder you train the great in you they'll see.

To perform you need practice, to practice you need passion.

Preparation doesn't assures victory, it assures confidence.

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Humanity doesn't need to be understood, if you can practice it