Quotes on Practice

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Author: Hank Aaron

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

Author: Andre Agassi

I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Author: Woody Allen

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Author: Kenneth Baker

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

Author: Victoria Beckham

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

Author: Ronald Biggs

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

Author: Bodhidharma

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.

Author: Rick Boucher

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

Author: H. Brown, Jr.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

Author: Bill Bruford

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Author: William Buckley, Jr.

The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.

Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

Author: Steve Carlton

So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?

Author: Dennis Chavez

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Author: Deepak Chopra

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

Author: Edward Cocker

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Author: Brian Ferneyhough

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Learn by practice.

Author: Martha Graham

Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.

Author: George Halas

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

Author: Herbie Hancock

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.

Author: Franco Harris

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

Author: Paul Harvey

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

Author: Ernest Holmes

What the left says sounds very good but, in practice, it works out very badly.

Author: David Horowitz

For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.

Author: Don Hutson

Why do you not practice what you preach.

Author: St. Jerome

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Author: Charles Kettering

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.

Author: Christian Lange

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

Author: Geddy Lee

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

Author: Geddy Lee

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Author: Vince Lombardi

Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!

Author: Joe Montana

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

Author: William Osler

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

Author: Alexandra Paul

Everything is practice.

Author: Pele

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

Author: James Penney

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

Author: Periander

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.

Author: Marcel Proust

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

Author: Buddy Rich

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

Author: Sally Ride

Practice makes permanent.

Author: Bobby Robson

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

Author: Helen Rowland

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

Author: Gabriela Sabatini

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

Author: Pete Sampras

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Author: Gene Sarazen

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Author: Sam Snead

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

Author: Duke Snider

Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.

Author: John Snow

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

Author: Oswald Spengler

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

Author: Willie Stargell

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Author: Casey Stengel

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

Author: Payne Stewart

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Author: Publilius Syrus

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

Author: Toots Thielemans

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

Author: Christy Turlington

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

Author: Rick Wagoner

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

Author: Fay Weldon

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Author: Arsene Wenger

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

Author: Minor White

In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

Author: Ellen Willis

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

Author: Emil Zatopek

Happiness is a choice that requires effort and practice.

Author: John Smith