Practice Quotes

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.

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

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

Everything is practice.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground.

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.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field.

Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

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

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

James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.