Top 1200 Deliberate Practice Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.

I always stayed on before and after practice. I just think that if you want to excel at anything, be it basketball, dance or the piano, you need to practice a lot.

Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.

Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down.

Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

A talented child will have a schedule that is horrendous. You get up and practice, go to school, practice some more, eat dinner, and then you have homework.

I usually settle into a routine during the season where I shoot for about 15 or 20 minutes before and after practice, and then do the whole practice.

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease

A practice that is suitable for one person is not necessarily suitable for someone else, and a practice that is appropriate for one person at one time is not necessarily appropriate for that same person at another time. Buddha did not expect us to put all his teachings into practice right away--they are intended for a great variety of practitioners of different levels and dispositions.

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.

Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get.

Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

You might think that after 40 years of practice you wouldn't need to practice anymore, but sadly it doesn't work that way. You still have to keep chugging away and perfecting.

Boxing’s not that straightforward,” said Eldric. “You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.

Branding is deliberate differentiation.

The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by using the canvas of the body. It is as if you were to stretch a canvas more and create a larger surface for a painting. But we must respect the present form of our body. If you pull too much at once, we will rip the canvas. If the practice of today damages the practice of tomorrow, it is not correct practice.

The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us to endure struggle or boredom now in return for future rewards. The Eastern idea of practice, on the other hand, is to create the person, or rather to actualize or reveal the complete person who is already there.... Not only is practice necessary to art, it is art.

I think it's beautiful to practice. I love to practice.

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so; for the G.P. has to live continually, as it were, with the results of his handiwork.

In many places around the world, including Turkey until the 1950s, Muslims didn't have full freedom of religion. Even personal practice was not allowed, and they had to practice in secret.

We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want to run and you resist every step of the three miles, but you do it anyway. You practice whether you want to or not. You don't wait around for inspiration and a deep desire to run ... That's how writing is too ... One of the main aims in writing practice is to learn to trust your own mind and body; to grow patient and nonaggressive.

We often disguise our reflexes as deliberate actions.

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

For me, my yoga practice is like putting a one in front of a lot of zeros. Without my practice, everything quickly becomes chaotic.

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.

I've not had a deliberate image makeover.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself

Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

If you want a good play and a show, you need time to prep for it. Artistes must be allowed to practice without being charged for the practice sessions. Let the auditorium charge for the tickets.