Practice Quotes

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

~ Mia Hamm

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

~ Jaron Lanier

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

~ Albert Pike

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Surgical Anatomy is, to the student of medicine and surgery, the most essential branch of anatomical science, having reference more especially to an accurate knowledge of the more important regions, and consisting in the application of anatomy generally to the practice of surgery.

~ Henry Gray

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

~ Harold E. Varmus

I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.

~ Chris Cornell

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

~ Ellie Kemper

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

~ Matt Cameron

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

~ Thomas À Kempis

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

~ Lawrence G. Lovasik

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

~ Emanuel Celler

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

~ Diogenes

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.

~ Evelyn Glennie

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

~ Roscoe Mitchell

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

~ Chip Conley

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

~ Tom Brady

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

~ Vivienne Westwood

Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.

~ Rafael Nadal

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

~ David Ben-Gurion

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

~ Deepak Chopra

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

~ Martin Filler

Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning.

~ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

~ Martha Graham

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

~ Yo-Yo Ma

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.

~ Mitchel Resnick

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.

~ Bill Cosby

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

~ Apollonius Of Tyana

In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!

~ Curtis Stone

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

~ Walter Koenig

America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

~ James Frey

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

~ Ramakrishna

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

~ Pico Iyer

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

~ Jane Elliot

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

~ Erwin Mcmanus

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

~ Richard Gere

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

~ Uma Thurman