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Practice is the performance of a set of acts, physical or intellectual, over and over again

• Practice: The act of doing something regularly or repeatedly to improve your skill at doing it.  Cambridge Dictionary
• I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. Martha Graham
• The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice. Joyce Meyer
• Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. Martha Graham
• Skill,  Learning,  Talent,  Mastery,  Excellence,  Action,  Knowledge,  Habit

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Practice shapes who we are

• You are what you practice most. Richard Carlson
• Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself. Evenus

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Practice is the best instructor there is for we learn by doing

• For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle
• Practice is the best of all instructors. Publilius Syrus
• What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. by Aristotle
• That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good. Malcolm Gladwell
• I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit. Martha Graham
• We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. Martha Graham
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Practice leads to mastery and excellence

• At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path. George Leonard
• You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better. John Wooden
• Champions keep playing until they get it right. Billie Jean King
• My secret is practice. David Beckham
• Everything is practice. Pele
• Consistency of practice is the mark of the master. George Leonard
• I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice. Erich Fromm
• If you do your best always, over and over again, you will become a master of transformation. Practice makes the master. By doing your best you become a master. Everything you have ever learned, you learned through repetition. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Neuroplasticity has shown our brain changes with experience and we get good at what we practice. Willoughby Britton
• Practice only makes for improvement. Les Brown
• Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day. Brian Tracy
• The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert—in anything. Daniel Levitin
• I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles. Sam Snead
• Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation. Eric Butterworth
• Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits. Mike Krzyzewski
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Practice makes perfect

• Practice makes perfect. Benjamin Franklin
• Practice isn’t the thing you do when you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good. Malcolm Gladwell
• Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady. Bruce Lee
• As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward. Vincent van Gogh

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Practice is one of the greatest determiners of genius and success …

• The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It’s not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it’s deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft. David Brooks
• Determination, effort, and practice are rewarded with success. Mary Lydon Simonsen
• Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice. Chris Bradford
• It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference. Jenny Craig
• Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. Jim Rohn
• Success isn’t something that just happens – success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared. Sparky Anderson
• Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there’s feedback. Malcolm Gladwell
• Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally, you’ll hit the bull’s-eye of success. Annie Oakley
• Success is less about luck, and more about practice. Robin Sharma
• A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! Pablo de Sarasate
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… and is what sets apart the great from the good

• By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. Confucius
• What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years. Daniel Goleman

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Victory is achieved far away from the cheers of the crowd

• The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses‚ behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. Muhammad Ali
• For every finish-line tape a runner breaks — complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras – – there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about. Grete Waitz
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Get the technique right before practicing it over and over

• The greatest mistake is to continue to practice a mistake. Bobby Bowden
• Don’t do anything in practice that you wouldn’t do in the game. George Halas
• You’ve heard the phrase “Practice makes perfect”? Not true. Perfect practice makes perfect. Twyla Tharp
• Practice makes permanent. Bobby Robson
• You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise. Michael Jordan
• We cannot make good news out of bad practice. Edward R. Murrow
• Don’t mistake activity for achievement – practice the right way. John Wooden

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Practice is hard work, so make sure you practice at something you love

• I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it. Ray Bradbury
• The only way a kid is going to practice is if it’s total fun for him… and it was for me. Wayne Gretzky
• Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. Babe Didrikson Zaharias
• Our delight in any particular study, art or science rises in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. Joseph Addison
• I know a lot of people think it’s monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it’s not if you’re enjoying what you’re doing. I love to swim and I love to train. Tracy Caulkins
• Athletes need to enjoy their training. From enjoyment comes the will to win. Arthur Lydiard
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Practice requires great discipline and will power

• First of all, the practice of an art requires discipline. I shall never be good at anything if I do not do it in a disciplined way; anything I do only if “I am in the mood” may be a nice or amusing hobby, but I shall never become a master in that art. Erich Fromm
• Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. Roy L. Smith
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Practice requires persistent, hard work

• Progress comes to those who train and train. Reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. Morihei Ueshiba
• I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true — hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it. Ray Bradbury
• Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. Ann Voskamp
• You can’t hire someone to practice for you. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson
• The reality that deliberate practice is hard can even be seen as good news. It means that most people won’t do it. So your willingness to do it will distinguish you all the more. Geoff Colvin
• Hard work,  Perseverance,  Effort

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Practice requires operating at the edges of your ability and making plenty of errors to start with

• Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways—operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes—makes you smarter. Or to put it a slightly different way, experiences where you’re forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them—as you would if you were walking up an ice- covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go—end up making you swift and graceful without you realizing it. Daniel Coyle
• Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you’ve practed two hundred times. Miriam Peskowitz
• Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.
• The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren’t (yet.) Seth Godin
• You can’t look good and get better at the same time.
• The essence of training is to allow error without consequence. Orson Scott Card

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Practice is not just about the number of hours you put in

• It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice. Eric Lindros
• The idea that the harder you work, the better you’re going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently. Bill Bowerman
• It’s not about the number of hours you practice, it’s about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice. Kobe Bryant

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When practicing, there is great power to be found in focus

• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. Bruce Lee
• Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots. Vic Braden
• Great performers isolate remarkably specific aspects of what they do and focus on just those things until they are improved; then it’s on to the next aspect. Geoff Colvin
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Through practice, turn your talents and gifts into strengths and skills

• Talent is only a starting point. Irving Berlin
• Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. Matthew Arnold
• The key to building a strength is to first identify your dominant talents, then refine them with knowledge and skills. Marcus Buckingham
• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Emile Zola
• Talent is a multiplier. The more attention and energy you invest in it, the greater the yield. Marcus Buckingham
• Identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near perfect performance. Marcus Buckingham
• If you learn a skill, it will help you get a little better, but it will not cover for a lack of talent. Instead, as you build your strengths, skills will actually prove most valuable when they are combined with genuine talent. Donald O. Clifton
• Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. Robert Brault
• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. Larry Bird
• You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can’t do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. Morgan Matson
• Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do. Bob Ross
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Through constant, repeated practice, aim to become a master of your craft

• Commit today to becoming a master. Ask yourself what are you best at? What things do you do that when you do them you feel happy and at peace–and sense your creativity and gifts pouring out of you. We get the life we’ve settled for. We get the brains we’ve earned. Start looking for those things in your work (and life) that you can become a Picasso at. Life shifts once you do. Robin Sharma
• Consistency of practice is the mark of the master. George Leonard
• How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself. George Leonard
• Repetition makes the master. Don Miguel Ruiz
• Practice makes the master. Patrick Rothfuss
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
• You don’t become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process. Randall Munroe
• Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. Amy Chua
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Even once you are a master, the need for practice never ends

• Ask the great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they arrived at the place where they need no further practice. They will tell you that the higher you climb in proficiency and public acceptance, the greater the need for practice. Eric Butterworth

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Practice is about application

• Practice: The actual application or use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it.  Oxford Dictionary

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Theory has no true value without putting it into practice

• An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Friedrich Engels
• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra
• Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together. Assata Shakur
• Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all practice. It’s the fellow who knows enough about practice to test his theories for blow- holes that gives the world a shove ahead, and finds a fair margin of profit in shoving it. George Horace Lorimer
• Before you’ve practiced, the theory is useless. After you’ve practiced, the theory is obvious. David Williams
• However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice, thou art ignorant. Muslih-uddin Sadi
• It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. Swami Satchidananda
• You see, knowing the words is not the same thing as living the meaning. Suppose I memorize the printed instructions on a first- aid kit. Does that mean I can give first aid? No. The full meaning comes when I admit I know nothing and then try, practice, succeed. Vernon Howard
• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant
• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra
• Always think about practice… theory is not the endpoint of work, it is the work along the way to work. Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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Put knowledge into practice

• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. Lao Tzu
• It is necessary to combine knowledge born from study with sincere practice in our daily lives. These two must go together. The Dalai Lama
• Knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything. Henry Hazlitt
• It is not enough to know how to do it; one must do it, consistently, in the same way as athletes or musicians must keep practicing what they know in theory. Per Csikszentmihalyi
• The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything. Henry Hazlitt
• We can’t get good at something solely by reading about it. And we’ll never make giant leaps in any endeavor by treating it like a snack food that we munch on whenever we’re getting bored. You get good at something by doing it repeatedly. Merlin Mann
• An ounce of practice is worth tons of preaching. Mahatma Gandhi
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In this way, find out if the knowledge is true

• Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people’s mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one’s own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge. Buddha

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Practice what you believe

• Do more than believe, practice. William A Ward
• Do more than belong, participate. Do more than care, help. Do more than believe, practice. William A Ward
• Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs—and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match up, we have integrity. Nathaniel Branden
• That which transforms your life is what you practice. And what you practice constitutes your personal laws of life—not what you merely believe in, but what you practice.  Michael Bernard Beckwith
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Practice what you profess and teach

• It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good. Greek proverb
• Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach. Arnold H. Glasow
• An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. Mahatma Gandhi
• It is not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. Francis Bacon
• Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others.  Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.  Alexander Haig

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Put your learning into practice

• Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. Edward Cocker
• Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. Ann Voskamp

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Put ideas into practice

• Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. Sidney J. Harris
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Practice the art of living

• Can anything be learned about the practice of an art, except by practicing it? Erich Fromm
• All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. C. Richards
• A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously. Nathaniel Branden
• A man practices the art of adventure when he is unafraid of new ideas, new theories and new philosophies. When he has the curiosity to experiment–to test and try new ways of living and thinking. Wilfred A. Peterson
• Instead of trying and failing choose either to experiment or practice. Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
• Let your practice be a celebration of life. Seido lee deBarros
• Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments. Lewis Mumford
• Living is an art. The process of learning an art can be divided conveniently into two parts: one, the mastery of the theory; the other, the mastery of the practice. Erich Fromm
• The day is ending, our life is one day shorter. Let us look carefully at what we have done. Let us practice diligently, putting our whole heart into the path. Let us live deeply each moment in freedom, so time does not slip away meaninglessly.  Thich Nhat Hanh
• Could all of us reclaim lost hours of our lives by making everything—the commonplace along with the extraordinary—a part of our practice? George Leonard
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Practice love and kindness

• Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. Nora Roberts
• Think of qualities like kindness, compassion and generosity, not as innate qualities that you have or don’t have, but as skills you can cultivate through mental practice and training. Willoughby Britton
• A wonderful, heartfelt strategy for becoming more peaceful and loving is to practice allowing others the joy of being right – give them the glory. Richard Carlson
• Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance. Begum Aga Khan
• If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body. David Deida
• Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. Mary Ann Kelty
• Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated. David Deida
• To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. Confucius
• Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Jack Canfield
• Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. Jack Kerouac
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Practice listening

• In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear. Mark Nepo
• Listening is a very deep practice…. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen…. especially to people we think are our enemies – the ones we believe are making our situation worse. Thich Nhat Hanh
• 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
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Practice compassion and empathy

• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. The Dalai Lama
• Practice empathy. The more successful you are at achieving understanding, concern, and consideration of the other person’s perspective, the more likely you are to forgive him or her.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
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Practice forgiveness

• Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. Gerald G. Jampolsky
• The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson
• You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice. Sonia Rumzi
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Practice friendship

• Friendships have to be created and nurtured. Like any other skill, building friendship has to be practiced. Sue Browder
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Practice reciprocity

• Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life? The Master said, Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. Confucius

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Practice hospitality

• Like many other virtues, hospitality is practiced in its perfection by the poor. If the rich did their share, how would the woes of this world be lightened! C.M. Kirkland
• Hospitality is essential to spiritual practice. It reminds you that you are part of a greater whole. Putting others first puts you in the midst of life without the illusion of being the center of life. Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro
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Practice generosity

• Generosity breeds an immediate kind of happiness, which is different than other practices, which often have a delayed positive reinforcement. This helps generosity beget more generosity with less and less effort. Joseph Goldstein
• Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. Jose Marti
• Practice giving things away, not just things you don’t care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count.  Robert A.F. Thurman
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Practice humility

• Practice humility. The less compelled you are to try to prove yourself to others, the easier it is to feel peaceful inside. The less you care about seeking approval, the more approval you seem to get. Richard Carlson
• Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments and give credit everywhere except to your ego. Wayne Dyer
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Practice creativity

• Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice. Phil Cousineau
• Spend less time immersed in popular culture and take conscious breaks from the everyday world to practice creative thinking. Charles Cave
• Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. Edward de Bono
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Practice patience, especially when it comes to progress

• Practice, the path of mastery, exists only in the present. You can see it, hear it, smell it, feel it. To love the plateau is to love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life. George Leonard
• As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you. Grenville Kleiser
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Practice contentment

• Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. Alain de Botton
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Practice devotion to something you love

• Your devotion eventually becomes your beautiful obsession. You practice it daily. Constantly. Consistently.  You have no time for TV and Call of Duty video games and Twitter or gossip. You need and hunger to do that thing that fills you. That inspires you. That gives you precious glimpses of your greatest self.  Robin Sharma
• If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it. Ray Bradbury
• If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope. The Dalai Lama
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Practice positivity

• In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day. Thich Nhat Hanh
• No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.  Adele Scheele
• Optimists have four special behaviors, all learned through practice and repetition. First, optimists look for the good in every situation. Second, optimists always seek the valuable lesson in every setback or difficulty. Third, optimists always look for the solution to every problem.  Fourth, optimists think and talk continually about their goals. Brian Tracy
• Practice ignoring your negative thoughts. You can analyse your thoughts, ponder, think through, study, think some more – or you can learn to ignore them – dismiss, pay less attention to, not take too seriously. Richard Carlson
• Replay happy days. The practice of repetitively replaying your happiest life events serves to prolong and reinforce positive emotions and make you happier.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• When you practice thinking and responding optimistically most of the time, this positive attitude soon becomes a conditioned response. You will eventually find yourself reacting and responding positively and optimistically all-day long. Brian Tracy
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Practice gratitude

• If you aren’t happy with what you’ve got, you probably aren’t going to be happy with anything else. Gratitude isn’t just something that magically happens, you have to practice, consciously. Henri Junttila
• One of the best ways to cultivate gratitude is to establish a daily practice in which you remind yourself of the gifts, grace, benefits, and good things you enjoy. One of the best ways to do this is keeping a daily journal in which you record the blessings you are grateful for. Robert Emmons
• Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. Alan Cohen
• When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others. The Dalai Lama
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Practice clarity of vision

• One powerful exercise you can practice to supercharge your thinking and accelerate your results is called idealization. In idealization you continually imagine the perfect outcome or solution for any situation in your life. You project forward three to five years, or even further, and then create a mental picture of the kind of life and career that would be ideal for you in every respect. Brian Tracy
• Practice clarity of vision. What do you want to create? Ask yourself what you really want, why you really want it, and if manifesting it will serve a higher purpose for humanity. Deepak Chopra
• To rid yourself of excuses, you must learn to practice contemplating what you intend to manifest and simultaneously detach from the outcome. Wayne Dyer
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Practice humour and laughter

• Good humor isn’t a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. David Seabury
• Laugh a lot, and sincerely, because that is the pure sound of your soul. A sense of humor keeps us healthy and belongs in our spiritual practices. Michael Bernard Beckwith
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Practice rational thinking

• Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another. Immanuel Kant
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Practice the art of communication and conversation

• Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. Jim Rohn
• To improve, practice and then practice some more. The art of conversation, like any skill, takes practice. Do not expect to be adept after your first few attempts. It will take practice as well as exposure to many different social situations. Zorka Hereford
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Practice writing

• The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve. Lauren Tarshis
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Practice collaboration

• Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice. Douglas B. Reeves
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Practice freedom

• We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. William Faulkner
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Practice leadership

• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen
• Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice. Max Dupree
• Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet. Henry Mintzberg
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Practice savouring

• Pleasure is something you can easily lose the knack of, if you allow yourself to get out of practice. J. Parker

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Practice beginner’s mind

• In Zen, ‘don’t-know mind’ is the only kind of mind that is true. When you practice don’t-know mind, you let go of the need for knowing and acknowledge how little you can ever actually know. Colleen Morton Busch
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Practice virtue and goodness

• Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. Confucius
• The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy. Voltaire
• Virtue,  Goodness

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Practice self-discipline

• A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant. Robin Sharma
• First of all, the practice of an art requires discipline. I shall never be good at anything if I do not do it in a disciplined way; anything I do only if “I am in the mood” may be a nice or amusing hobby, but I shall never become a master in that art. Erich Fromm
• Successful people make sure that everything they do in the short term is consistent with where they want to end up in the long term. They practice self- discipline at all times. Brian Tracy
• Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. Robin Sharma
• When you’re trying to make a big change or transform an old habit, look for a small way to practice self-control that strengthens your willpower, but doesn’t overwhelm it completely. Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.
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Spiritual theory must be put into everyday practice to be of any value

• Your philosophy may give you a temporary state of euphoria, but if you want to be anchored in reality, it takes practice, practice, practice. We are not here to be euphoric but to get free. Rudimentary spirituality is theory; advanced spirituality is practice. Michael Beckwith
• Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action. Sri Ramakrishna
• Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. One must put it into practice. That sense of oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love and not by any other means.  Sri Sathya Sai Baba
• Of course, there’s nothing wrong with philosophical speculation. But let’s not mistake conceptual thought for the spiritual practice of everyday life. After all, what does it serve to know whether angels wear earrings if we can’t hold a regular job or maintain a long- term relationship? What good does it do to pray like a saint or meditate like a yogi if we are unchanged when we open our eyes? What good to attend a place of worship on Saturday or Sunday if we lack compassion on Monday? Dan Millman
• To read and study and have conversations about spiritual practices is good, but unless you incorporate them into your life, you won’t embody or integrate them—which means you aren’t receiving their benefits. Michael Beckwith
• Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself. Karen Maezen Miller
• Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectual understanding, for pride of accomplishment, or as a substitute for actual practice, then one is taking in too much mental food, which is sure to result in intellectual indigestion. Prem Prakash
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Spiritual practice is about nurturing inner peace and equanimity

• By altering the neurochemistry of the brain, spiritual practices bestow a sense of peace, happiness, and security, while decreasing symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress. Andrew Newberg
• There is one certain criterion by which you can measure your success in this practice: the degree of peace that you feel within. Eckhart Tolle
• My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice. Andrew Weil
• With practice, the sense of stillness and peace will deepen. In fact, there is no end to its depth. You will also feel a subtle emanation of joy arising from deep within: the joy of Being. Eckhart Tolle
• Inner peace,  Equanimity

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Spiritual practice is about coming into the now

• A spiritual practice draws you into the simplicity of the moment. There is nothing like regular practice to bring you into the now, and to keep you from getting lost in the past or mired in fears of the future. Maggie Lyon
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Spiritual practice is about attention and awareness

• Nearly all spiritual practices are based on attention. In fact, whenever you think you have lost the path, or whenever you feel confused by esoteric terminology or technique, remember that all these techniques or teachings are various ways to help you learn to pay attention. Rick Fields
• Awareness,  Awareness

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Spiritual practice is about acceptance and allowing

• After all our futile efforts to transform our ordinary minds into idealized, spiritual minds, we discover the fundamental paradox of practice is that leaving everything alone is itself what is ultimately transformative. Barry Magid
• I had been trying to use my spiritual practice to get what I wanted, when spiritual practice is actually about being with reality as it is. I had been trying to satisfy my own will instead of opening to God’s will. No wonder my practice had been such a struggle! Kim Boykin
• If you remember nothing else, always remember this one great secret of spiritual practice: we don’t have to feel any particular way. We don’t have to have special experiences, nor do we have to be any particular way. With whatever arises, whether it’s pleasing or not, try to remember that all we can do is experience and work with whatever our life is right now. No matter what life is and no matter how we feel about it, all that matters in practice is whether we can honestly acknowledge what is going on, and then stay present with the physical experience of that moment. Ezra Bayda
• Acceptance,  Allowing,  Non-resistance

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Spiritual practice is about ending one’s identification with form

• Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts so seriously. Eckhart Tolle
• Now find death before it finds you. And that’s the essence of spiritual practice, is finding death, embracing death…which is the end of identification with form. The end of deriving your sense of self, identity, from form. Eckhart Tolle
• Once you’ve made this freedom the meaning of your life, there are spiritual practices that can help you. These practices are what you do with your time in order to free yourself from yourself. Michael Singer
• The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego’s constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.  Trungpa Chogyam

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Spiritual practice is about practicing love

• I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect. The Dalai Lama
• Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated. David Deida
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Spiritual practice is about radical openness

• If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that – then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you’ll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.  Pema Chodron
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Spiritual practices require dedication and devotion

• Don’t think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness. Lao Tzu
• If we read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts. Rajiv Mehrotra
• One becomes firmly established in practice only after attending to it for a long time, without interruption and with an attitude of devotion. Yoga Sutra I.14
• To advance spiritually requires a method of practice and determination to carry it out. Allan Lokos
• Repeated practice is one of the most basic principles of most spiritual and meditative paths. Whatever you practice most is what you become.  Richard Carlson
• Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost and leave the rest to God. Swami Shivananda
• Devotion,  Dedication

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Everyday life itself is the greatest spiritual practice

• Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior. Bill Porter
• If we can only change our vision and the thought, whatever we do becomes spiritual practice. Sri Swami Satchidananda
• I’m about tearing down the monastery walls and seeing the whole world as the monastery, as the practice, as the spiritual temple. Genpo Roshi
• The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. Thomas Moore
• There isn’t anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty- four hours a day. Pema Chodron

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Practice prayer

• Like everything else that connects us to our Higher Self, prayer is most effective when practiced, meaning that you should pray whenever you think of it until it becomes automatic. Sonia Choquette
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Practice non-attachment

• Practice detachment. This is the best way to experience feelings without letting them control you.  Think of an old steam locomotive—it comes roaring into the station full of power, noise, smoke, bells, lights—a huge, overwhelming experience.  But we have some ability to choose whether we get on board or not.  Distance yourself somewhat from mood and emotions:  they are part of you, but not all of you.  They won’t last forever.  Richard O’Connor
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Practice stillness and calmness

• But first, you have to practice stillness. Stillness is the first requirement of manifesting your desires, because in stillness lies your connection to the field of pure potentiality that can orchestrate an infinity of details for you. Deepak Chopra
• Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace. Joan Borysenko
• Practice being the eye of the storm. Commit to being the one person in the room who is an example of peace and calm. All it takes is intention and practice. Richard Carlson
• The more you practice equanimity, the better you get, and the happier and saner you will become. Leo Babauta
• Stillness,  Calmness

Practice acceptance and non-judgement

• I will practice Acceptance. Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur. I will know that this moment is as it should be, because the whole universe is as it should be. Deepak Chopra
• I will practice non-judgement. Today I shall judge nothing that occurs. Deepak Chopra
• Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. Saint Vincent de Paul
• The burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations? Sengcan
• The path that leads to intimacy is blocked to those who are unwilling or unable to practice non-judgment. Matthew Kelly
• Acceptance,  Let go of the need to judge

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Practice allowing

• Practice allowing. Release all emotional desperation and attachment to your goals. Tess Marshall
• The final practice: Leaving yourself alone. Not doing anything to yourself. Not interfering with your own experience. Letting your experience be exactly the way it is 100%. A.H. Almaas
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Practice present moment awareness

• I will remind myself to practice present-moment awareness in all my actions. Deepak Chopra
• If we practice awareness or loving-kindness, it becomes our way and the world responds accordingly. We are heirs to the results of our actions, to the intentions we bring to every moment we initiate. Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield
• 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
• Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Our way to practice is one step at a time, one breath at a time. Shunryu Suzuki
• Awareness,  Live in the present

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Practice meditation

• After a few years of meditation practice, we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be! Wes Nisker
• Although at first our concentration may be very brief, if we persevere in the practice, it will progressively lengthen. Geshe Rabten
• Just be. Just being in the moment in this place is the deepest practice of meditation. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Nothing you can do will strengthen your determination more than the regular practice of meditation: at the same time, and for the full length of time, every single day. Eknath Easwaran
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Practice mindfulness

• Enlightenment is the result of the daily practice of mindfulness. Shinjo Ito
• Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out. Thich Nhat Hanh
• If mindfulness is deeply important to you, then every moment is an opportunity to practice. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• In your everyday life, you can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself. Eckhart Tolle
• Mindfulness is the practice of noticing. Adyashanti
• Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Mindfulness: a simple and direct practice of moment-to-moment observation of the mind-body process through calm and focused awareness without judgment. Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD
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Practice Yoga

• Yoga is essentially a practice for your soul, working through the medium of your body. Tara Fraser
• Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. Patanjali
• Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. K.S. Iyengar
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More spiritual practices

• For myself, well, Alan Watts once asked me what spiritual practice I followed. I told him, ‘I underline books.’ It’s all in how you approach it. Joseph Campbell
• Practice not-doing. And everything will fall into place. Lao Tzu

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• For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice. Don Hutson
• An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging. Pancho Segura
• The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Sean O’Casey
• To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice. Seve Ballesteros
• I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. Martha Graham
• Approach life with a mind sharpened by your practices, and see the One in the many. Upanishads
• Let your practice be a celebration of life. Seido lee deBarros
• That’s why it’s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value. Allan Lokos
• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application – practice. What you practice is what you manifest. Fay Weldon
• Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. Steve Brown
• Perfectionism doesn’t believe in practice shots. It doesn’t believe in improvement. Julia Cameron
• Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice — continuous effort. Bruce Lee
• Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. Epictetus
• Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don’t keep reading the book. You have to travel. That’s what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path. Bill Porter
• What are you NOT doing today that were doing when you were most on fire with your life? What daily or weekly practices have fallen by the wayside? Tim Sanders
• It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace. David Richo
• Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. Rembrandt
• To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. Kurt Vonnegut
• If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it. Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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• A tea-totaller is someone who practices moderation to excess.
• Abstinence is a good thing but it should be practiced in moderation.
• Around a clubhouse they’ll tell you even God has to practice his putting. In fact even Nicklaus does. Jim Murray
• Practice makes perfect, but nobody’s perfect, so why practice? Kurt Cobain
• At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be “What is Hell?” Come early and listen to our choir practice. Church Bulletin
• The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Sean O’Casey
• Cab drivers are living proof that practice does not make perfect. Howard Ogden
• Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. Tallulah Bankhead
• I didn’t practice abstinence, I perfected it. Dennis Wolfberg
• I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing; now I go to the driving range to practice slicing without swearing. Bruce Lansky
• I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. Woody Allen
• In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards. Mark Twain
• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice – but in practice there is. Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
• Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”? George Carlin
• Meetings and conventions : Something you attend to learn things you already know, but don’t have time to put into practice, because there are too many meetings and conventions to attend.
• Milton was probably the best at dealing with hecklers but then he probably had the most practice. George Burns
• One day of practice is like one day of clean living; it doesn’t do you any good. Abe Lemons
• One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience but needs some practice to be a good one. Charles Dudley Warner
• The more I practice the luckier I get. Gary Player
• There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice. Thomas Mulligan
• They say that nobody is perfect; then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds. Wilt Chamberlain
• Underwater Swimmer: One who practices submersive activitites.
• We got to practice a little bit. I want these guys to be bouncing around like a pogo stick on Viagra. Bob Green
• When God made man, she was practicing. Rita Mae Brown
• When I was little my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.   Steven Wright
• Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing. Steven Wright
• How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice. Saadi
• I said, ‘You missed practice yesterday didn’t you?’ The player replied, ‘No coach, not a bit.’ Vince Lombardi

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