The only way to improve is to keep playing and practicing.

Everything is practice.

Theory doesn’t mean anything until it’s put into practice.

If you cheat yourself in practice, you’ll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you’ll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

If a minister wants to be a man among men he need only to stop creating devotion to abstract ideals which every one accepts in theory and denies in practice, and to agonize about their validity and practicability in the social issues which he and others face in our present civilization.

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account.

At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that a minority will have the force to subvert a government . . . . But theoretic reasoning in this, as in most other cases, must be qualified by the lessons of practice.

When I got to be a CEO, I said: ‘Right. I’m now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I’m going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.’

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

“One thing I learn – I’ve been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.”

The best thing about having a footballer dad is seeing the game up close. You watch him train, then go home and practice what you’ve seen in the front room, rearranging the furniture.

It isn’t hard to practise finishing. You can do it on your own: just take a couple of touches and shoot at goal. You can do it with whatever equipment you have.

His ambition for victory sets Mourinho apart. He wants to win every game, so he prepares all the smallest details; in training, at the game, everything. I loved to work with him.

I am not a buff guy who’s working out at the gym after practice.

One piece of advice I often give young singers, including my son Vijay, is to not get sidetracked from their primary duty of learning music. This is the age of marketing and hard sell. Everybody wants instant results. But no amount of hard sell will prop you up if you don’t hone your craft.

I have had to work really hard at white-ball cricket. It doesn’t come naturally to me, I was a slow batsman; I worked hard on my game and fitness.

For somebody like me who doesn’t bowl, it’s important to contribute in the field, and I’ve worked hard on that, slip catching.

He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.

Markets weed out inefficient practices, but only when no one has sufficient power to manipulate them.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

We must be selfish in our practice. ‘Selfish’ here is not a negative concept. This kind of selfishness doesn’t hurt anyone else, and it doesn’t mean you neglect others in any way. But it requires you to put your joy first.

I forgive as often as possible. I think forgiveness is the bedrock of a spiritual practice.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech

Practice isn’t just about putting in the time. It’s about putting in the effort every day.

I’d tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day.

I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

Sex, whatever else it is, is an athletic skill. The more you practice, the more you can, the more you want to, the more you enjoy it, the less it tires you.

Practice “zero-based thinking” in every part of your life. Ask yourself continually, “If I were not doing this already, knowing what I now know, would I start doing it again today?

You can become an unstoppable, consistent, goal achieving machine. You just need to practice the proven strategies contained in my talks and books.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

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.

You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.

Practice, practice, practice. Anyone can learn, but you need focus, proper understanding, and to go at the right pace, not running before you can walk.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

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

It’s great to be able to come in every day and work out, review videos, and practice with guys who all have the same objective in mind.

Champions are forged in the wee hours of the morning when everyone else is still sleeping.” They remain beyond practice to obtain more repetitions with their key receivers so they can locate each other in the midst of 65,000 screaming fans on game day.

Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game.

My work was practice, practice, practice.

If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.

I used to practice with a golf ball because it was easier to control.

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.

The practice of solitude had given him a love for it, as happens with every big thing which we have begun by fearing.

Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment.

Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do practice?

An ounce of practice is worth a thousand words.

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

I ought to call myself an agnostic; but, for all practical purposes, I am an atheist. I do not think the existence of the Christian God any more probable than the existence of the Gods of Olympus or Valhalla. To take another illustration: nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptical orbit, but nobody thinks this sufficiently likely to be taken into account in practice. I think the Christian God just as unlikely.

Change your thinking. Change your life! Your thoughts create your reality. Practice positive thinking. Act the way you want to be, and soon you will be the way you act.

Always realize that you can get better. Your best work has not been done yet. Practice! Practice! Practice!

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Every practice, every film session, every game will help our chemistry.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth

Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.

I’m lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.

What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races.

In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.

Don’t discount yourself, no matter what you’re doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

I used to always be in Atlanta, chilling. I didn’t really have as much to do. So I would gamble as a hobby. Now I’d rather go into the studio and try to make me a hit.

Every day I’m getting shaped and molded. Keepin’ on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more I’m in it, the more I’m practicing and the more I’m advancing.

When you lose, you get up, you make mistakes and you learn. And then you become a better player.

From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.

Little by little, I’m getting better all the time. I’ve not lost the passion to play.

I still have a lot of room for improvement. For example, I want to shoot equally well with both feet.