Practice Quotes - Page 3

An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible.

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.

The combination of mental and physical practice leads to greater performance improvement than does physical practice alone, a phenomenon for which our findings provide a physiological explanation. - Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

[I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality. . . . (20)

Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practed two hundred times.

Spectacular performances are preceded by spectacular preparation

Rage - whether in reaction to social injustice, or to our leaders’ insanity, or to those who threaten or harm us - is a powerful energy that, with diligent practice, can be transformed into fierce compassion.

The price of freedom is teamwork" from forthcoming, Internet Etiquette: Netiquette Principles, Practice, and Power NetworkEtiquette.net

Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

Just as novice musicians must spend many hours practicing basic skills like playing scales or mastering difficult passages-and frequently do so in the presence of their teacher, receiving immediate and individualized feedback-so must our students spend many hours practicing the basic intellectual skills of our discipline.

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.