Quotes about Practice
Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
— Seth Godin
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
Everything that occurs in our confused mind we can regard as the path.
— Pema Chodron
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
— Peter Drucker
It's the most essential thing of all just because it's not a matter of how you do it at all, but of whether you do it. Like being born, or cooking: how you do it is less important than whether you do it. You can find thousands of books on prayer that give you methods of praying, hundreds of hows; but they do you no good at all unless you actually pray. Otherwise it's like reading a cookbook instead of cooking. You can't eat a cookbook!
— Peter Kreeft
Between 50 and 75% of entering freshmen at large Catholic universities typically identify themselves as believing and practicing Catholics. Only 25-50% of graduating seniors do the same.
— Peter Kreeft
Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.
— Wayne Dyer
By nature, near together; by practice far apart.
— Confucius
Tzu-chang asked Master K'ung about Goodness. Master K'ung said, He who could put the Five into practice everywhere under Heaven would be Good. Tzu-chang begged to hear what these were. The Master said, Courtesy, breadth, good faith, diligence, and clemency.
— Confucius
He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
— Confucius
To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge. To practice with vigor is to be near to magnanimity. To possess the feeling of shame is to be near to energy. He who knows these three things, knows how to cultivate his own character.
— Confucius
But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such 'wisdom' does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice" (James 3:14)
— Craig Groeschel