I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
Margaret J. Wheatley

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?
Billie Joe Armstrong

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
Jesse Owens

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

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
Lauryn Hill

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

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
Geddy Lee

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

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
Sydney J. Harris

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
Diogenes

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
Jacques Derrida

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov

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

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.
Daniel Goleman

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

You can't hire someone to practice for you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Ramakrishna

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
Pete Rose

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
Irving Babbitt