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Practice Quotes


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


"So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?"


"The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape."


"He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship."


"Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless."


"I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice."


"If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!"


"I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology."


"For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice."


"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."


"What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly."


"Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!"


"Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do."


"Do it again. Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it."


"What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems."


"It takes lot of practice to get it right."


"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."


"It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing."


"As you jump new hurdles, you gain greater confidence. Confidence can be achieved like any other practiced skill."


"One learns by doing, not by learning to do."


"No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice."


"Life is a practice. When you 'fail,' you can immediately begin practicing again."


"What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives."



"There are two types of spiritual practices. One spiritual practice is done to attain the final goal (experience of pure Soul) and the other type of spiritual practice is done for the sake of doing the spiritual practice. The practice that is performed with the intent of attaining the final goal is the last, final type of spiritual practice."


"Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice."


"Yoga is a method to come to a nondreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now."
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