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“To arrive at a place called Mastery, you must commit to daily and rigorous practice. Enjoy practising your craft for its own sake without turning your attention to your ultimate destination. Understand, once and for all, that the journey is as important as the destination.”

Important Enjoy Attention Practice Journey Ultimate Sake Commit Crafts Destination Mastery

Author:Robin Sharma

“Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.”

Practice Theory Pure Reflection Critical Activism Requirements Blah Theory And Practice Critical Reflection

Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.”

Art Practice Habit Excellence

Author:Aristotle

“[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety.”

Law Community Practice Mercy Safety Consistent Empires Penalties Delightful Vicious Humane Roman Empire Theorists Public Safety

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such as smoking cigarettes and riding motorcycles, why on earth should the government let people make their own choices when it comes to such consequential matters as where to live, how much education to get, whom to marry, whether to have children, which job to take, or what religion to practice?”

“I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.”

Character Hands Hours Practice Directors Scripts

Author:Melanie Laurent

“But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts.”

Giving Persons Jesus Names Christ Opinion Practice Habit Jesus Christ Destruction Credit Contrary Doctrine Beast Wicked Worthless Unworthy Wild Beasts Guile

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.”

Happens Lasts Night Fall Practice Imagine Events Bed Following Performing Amazed Rehearsal Best Times

Author:Brian Tracy

“Try and get out into nature for even 30 min. each day to clear your head + think + walk + breathe. Great daily practice.”

Thinking Trying Walks Practice Clear Breathe Each Day

Author:Robin Sharma

“An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.”

Practice Amount Reflection Performances

Author:Robin Sharma

“You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.”

Hours Half Practice Exercise Train Prepared Scales My Time Each Day Auditions Meter Half Hours Musicianship

Author:Jim Rogers

“I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.”

Children Helping Views Attitude Practice Teacher Theory Genius Instruments Parks My Attitude Abnormal Untalented

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should America Practice Painting Profit Backgrounds Vulgar Gallery Schumann

Author:Terry Teachout

“Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.”

Want Practice Team Championship Championship Team

Author:Bobby Knight

“I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.”

Guy Song Voice Rooms Practice Saws Fronts Mom Mirrors My Mom Dolls Me Alone Grease

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as you can, you go to practice, you get in shape, you do what you need to do, and then by the time you get to the game, you know your plays, but they have to feel like they're in your bones. That has to be an unconscious thing, it cannot be conscious. That is everything to me.”

Knows Needs Feels Play Running Games Practice Study Team Shapes Conscious Bones Unconscious Getting In Shape

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“With practice you can get to be the best within your biological constraints.”

Practice Being The Best Constraints

Author:H. A. Berlin

“Engineering is a creative practice.”

Practice Creative Engineering

Author:Cory Arcangel

“But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.”

Stills Shows Company Practice Grace Shoes Stuck Gentleman Dancer

Book:Gentleman Practice

Source: Gentleman Practice

“Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.”

People Way Religious Practice Normal Assuming Abandoned Superstitions Immoral Extravagant Observance Religious Practices

Book:Nobel Prize Library

Source: Nobel Prize Library

“Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.”

Thinking Common Practice Evolution Fundamentals Making Money Analysis Outcomes Investors Predicting

Author:Charlie Munger

“'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.”

Thinking Men Humans Different Today Practice Circumstances Behavior Management Foundation Investment Crowds Brilliant Foolish Tendencies Folly Investors Lemmings Investment Management

Author:Charlie Munger

“If you're going to be an investor, you're going to make some investments where you don't have all the experience you need. But if you keep trying to get a little better over time, you'll start to make investments that are virtually certain to have a good outcome. The keys are discipline, hard work, and practice. It's like playing golf - you have to work on it.”

Ifs Needs Trying Littles Hard Certain Practice Hard Work Keys Discipline Golf Investment Outcomes Investors Keep Trying Playing Golf

Author:Charlie Munger

“I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.”

Thinking Want Should Children School Practice Teacher Violence Behavior Violent

Author:Bill Cosby

“The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.”

Ifs Wells Different Practice Danger

Author:Chris Hadfield

“Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.”

Long Hours Practice Periods Skills Athletic Long Periods Of Time

Author:Zig Ziglar

“It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire. This practice deserves pronounced condemnation. Hero worship is a tremendous force in uplifting and strengthening. Humanity, let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great.”

Believe Has Beens Seems Humanity Force Practice Hero Worship Deserve Uplifting Seats Condemnation Strengthening Hero Worship

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.”

Differences Practice Technology Historical

Author:Bill Gates

“Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.”

Law Practice

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.”

Practice Communication Revolution Depends Mass Competent Organisation Enlisting

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.”

Writing Humans Interest Imagination Practice Human Nature Activity Constitution Insight Separation Executives Division Occupation Anatomy

Author:John Dewey

“It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. The training is twofold. There is the study and practice of the craft in order to strengthen the muscular structure of the body. The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted. The movement become clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. This might be called the law of the dancer's life, the law which governs its outer aspects”

“Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere.”

Mean Littles Practice Succeed Management Factors Good Man Elsewhere Bias Employed

Author:Masaaki Imai

“Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.”

Wells Play Practice Discipline Activity Piano

Author:Dallas Willard

“The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.”

People Compassion Practice Worship Devotion Needy

Author:Max Anders

“Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.”

World Should Matter Whole Used Jesus Church Practice Growing Air Tree Week Effects Bird Garden Should Have Seeds Kingdoms Meat Salt Smallest Nests Contagious Sprinkles Yeast Slabs

Author:Philip Yancey

“We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.”

“When you practice positive inner dialogue, people will want to bond with you, help you, be near you. They want to share in the bliss that shines through your eyes and is reflected in your every action.”

People Want Helping Eye Action Practice Share Shining Dialogue Bliss

Author:Deepak Chopra

“To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.”

Eye Understanding Compassion Practice Living Things Understanding You

Author:Nhat Hanh

“What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.”

Mean Law Order Turns Winning Practice Politician Gains Vote Property Campaigns Contribution Domain Campaign Contributions Eminent Domain

Author:Thomas Sowell

“In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the Bread of Life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God.”

Knows Needs Body Running Age Lasts Practice Dying Information Intellectual Lows Bread Dust Dry Incarnation Overload Information Overload Bread Of Life

Author:Rachel Held Evans

“The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.”

Moments Practice Pieces Performances Conception Composition Single Mom

Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances.”

Play Practice Limits Spring Tools Technique Resistance Acquire Testing

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real.”

Ifs Real Practice Splits Real Things

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“Brahms once remarked that the mark of an artist is how much he throws away. Nature, the great creator, is always throwing things away. A frog lays several million eggs at a sitting. Only a few dozen of these become tadpoles, and only a few of those become frogs. We can let imagination and practice be as profligate as nature.”

Artist Imagination Practice Millions Sitting Mark Lays Creator Eggs Throwing Dozen Frogs Brahms Tadpoles Throwing Things

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“Practice is an ever-fresh, challenging flow of work and play in which we continually test and demolish our own delusions; therefore, it is sometimes painful.”

Sometimes Play Challenges Practice Flow Tests Painful Delusion Demolish Work And Play

Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.”

Ifs Levels Practice Cases Depends Deeper Walkers

Book:Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

Source: Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within

“Practice in tranquility.”

Practice Tranquility

Author:Artur Schnabel

“As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.”

“Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.”

Ifs Should Trying Wells Important My Own Rooms Practice Opposites Realization Alternatives Phrases Routes

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

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