practicing Quotes

“Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”

″[N]othing is fun until you’re good at it.”

“Every day that you don’t practice is a day that you’re getting worse.”

“Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won’t learn their lessons or practise their scales. And sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children have a bad heart or a bad conscience.”

“Look at Fletcher! Lowell! Charles-Roland! Judy Lee! Are they also special and gifted and divine? No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.”

“A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food. It was another busy day beginning. But way off alone, out by himself beyond boat and shore, Jonathan Livingston Seagull was practicing.”

“What’s the matter, Po? Do you fear me?” “Yes, I fear you, as I should when you’re angry. I won’t fight you when you’re angry. Nor should you fight me when I’m angry. That’s not the purpose of these practices.”

“It is said that the warrior’s way is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways.”

“It is now during the first ten days of the tenth month in the twentieth year of Kanei (1645). I am sixty years old and I have been training many years in the Way of strategy called Ni Ten Ichi Try. I will now explain it in writing for the first time.”

“To love music is everything. First I will teach you to love music, after this slowly we shall learn to play.”

“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

“Researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”

“To love someone means to be there for him or for her. This is an art and a practice.”

“The thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That’s it. And what’s more, the people at the very top don’t work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.”

“Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They’d rather show the highlight of what they’ve become.”

″ In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I’ve practiced”

“Step by step, day by day, your choices will shape your actions until they become habits where practice makes them permanent.”

″ But in this enlightened age to hope to dupe the people by the arts they are practicing is still more extraordinary.”

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”

“Cat started to learn the violin. He thought he was making good progress. He practiced diligently. He never could understand why the new people living upstairs always banged on the floor when he started to play.”

“He was practicing away one evening when Gwendolen stormed in and shrieked a spell in his face. Cat found, to his dismay, that he was holding a large striped cat by the tail.”

″‘I was only practicing my knots.’ ‘What knots?’ ‘You mean which knots- not what knots. Whatnots are something quite different.‘”