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“I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.”

Knows Men Made Wanted Next Fun Hours Careers Practice College Goes On Piano Grandmother Smarter My Grandmother Scholarship

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.”

People Way Hours Practice Meditation Buddhism Listening Technique Sunset Formal Listening To Music Athletics Participating Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.”

Hours Practice Divine Keys Genius Chess Factors Crafts Realms Accomplished Performers Sparks Deliberate Separating Deliberate Practice Top Performers

Author:David Brooks

“The Argentineans practice on the court for two hours a day, then they must practice in front of a mirror for two more hour saying 'I'm not guilty.'”

Two Hours Practice Fronts Mirrors Court Guilty Not Guilty

Author:Vince Spadea

“In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.”

Years Hard Winning Hours Practice Four Week Ten Basketball Seasons Following Eight Coaching Each Day Nba Championship Fourteen Ucla National Championships

Author:John Wooden

“I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.”

Hours Rooms Practice Presses Driven Lawyer Journalist Ministers

Author:Grantland Rice

“Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.”

Writing Persons Done Artist Hours Practice Income Pens Often Is Interruptions Interrupting Time Is Money

Book:Selections from Eliza Leslie

Source: Selections from Eliza Leslie

“I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.”

Hours Practice Magic Fronts Ready Mirrors Tricks Magic Tricks

Author:Steve Martin

“it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.”

“I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.”

Two Whole Lasts Hours Numbers Class Practice Four Week Feet Six Ballet Sequence Ballet Class Six Feet Under

Author:Michelle Trachtenberg

“It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.”

Ifs Needs Use Care Hours Sleep Practice Morning Don't Care Nine I Don't Care Restaurants Showers Flexible Going To Sleep

Author:Roger Federer

“Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.”

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Author:Daniel Levitin

“The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.”

Ifs Thinking Years Looks Kind Hours Practice Four Fields Ten Complexes Patterns Be Good Chess Consistent Playing Chess Neurosurgeons

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The gym teacher's name was Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso did not speak English. He spoke 'Gym.' One day I was playing basketball and Mr. Caruso told me I would have to get an athletic supporter. He didn't express himself exactly that way, though. He said, 'Hey, you, one day you're gonna go up for a rebound and the family jewels aren't gonna go with ya.' I had no idea what he was talking about. Next day I showed up for practice without my watch and my mezuzah. He said, 'Did ya take care of the family jewels?' I said, 'I left 'em in my locker.' Took us a half hour to revive Mr. Caruso.”

“When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.”

Thinking World Writing Whole Stories Values Easy Hours Common Practice Alive Solitude Quiet Letters Whole World Thoughtful Lap Inner Life

Author:Vivian Gornick

“The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.”

“In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that if you put in 10,000 hours that you will become an expert, but there aren't any cases where someone has achieved world-class mastery without it! So the time spent at the activity is indeed the most important and influential factor.”

Ifs World Needs Mean Art Important Order Hours Class Practice Cases Drama Activity Factors Experts Mastery Minimum Influential Gymnastics Time Spent World Class

Author:Daniel Levitin

“Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.”

“One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.”

Years Inspiration Hours Practice Meditation Worship Contemplation Sixty One Hour Meditation Practice

Author:Elijah Muhammad

“Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.”

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Author:Hudson Taylor

“It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice.”

Firsts Children Art Ends Helping Hours Space Practice Five Minutes Masters Ought Decided Manage Staring Swim Capability Five Minutes Observing Hammocks Lounging Staring Into Space

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.”

Source: The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814

“It takes about 6 hours of practice a day for quite a few years to become a professional juggler. I started when I was 14 and that discipline has helped me immensely as a performer.”

Years Hours Practice Discipline Performers Jugglers

Author:Jeff Raz

“We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hard hours of work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns.”

“The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.”

Should Kind Two Matter Play Would Be Asks Hours Brain Practice Four Minutes Fingers Eight Active Concentration Maximum Pupils

Author:Leopold Auer

“My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.”

People Ifs Want Young Hours Practice Advice Musician Eight Things To Do

Author:T Bone Burnett

“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

“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

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

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Author:Zig Ziglar

“When I'm home, I practice four or five hours a day...I warm up for an hour before a gig.”

Home Hours Practice Five Four Warm Gigs

Author:Art Farmer

“I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen.”

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Author:Joe Pass

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