Practice Quotes

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
Garth Brooks

May, Anyone, Nobody

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
Donna Tartt

Work, Learned, Looking

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

Down, Anymore, Middle

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
Pat Summitt

Games, Excited, Classroom

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.
Terry Eagleton

Good, Human, Moral

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.
Tony Dungy

Learned, Team, Difficult

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.
Jim Lehrer

Someone, Story, Questions

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.
Richard Stallman

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
Alain Prost

Work, Win, Same

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
Ace Frehley

Play, Guitar, Again

I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually wanted to be a stuntman when I was kid, so I would practice falling down the stairs. It's just something I like to do.
Chris Pratt

Football, Down, Wanted

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
Bob Schieffer

Good, Experience, Husband

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
Marat Safin

Nothing, Through, Impossible

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.
Marat Safin

God, Care, Help

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

Good, Until, Lives

All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.
Jeff Miller

Faith, Free, Speak

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.
Frank Miller

Hollywood, Anywhere, Town

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts

Love, Great, Heart

When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.
Gail Simmons

Work, Single, Small

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.
John Burns

Goal, Succeed, Far

I'm appalled that an industry has grown around teaching a practice as wholesome and spiritual as yoga, so I decided to create my own free video to help people get started.
Andrew Mason

Spiritual, Help, Free

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
Indra Devi

Freedom, Fear, Loneliness

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
Piers Anthony

Writing, Before, Keep

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
John Berger

Dreams, Great, Human

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

Harder, Fallacy

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
Marcus V. Pollio

Art, Small, Rather

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
Adam Levine

Women, Beautiful, Face

I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.
Huston Smith

Long, Mean, Almost

I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.
Ian MacKaye

Time, Together, Guitar

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
Emanuel Celler

School, Successful, Wife

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