Quotes of Practice - somelinesforyou

“ Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ The chains of habit are generally too weak to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you. ”

- Dr. Rob Gilbert

“ Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth. ”

- George Crabbe

“ Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere. ”

- V. S. Pritchett

“ Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! ”

- Merrill Markoe

“ I'll habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ”

- John Dryden

“ Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule. ”

- John Locke

“ Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ You play the way you practice. ”

- Pop Warner

“ How use doth breed a habit in a man! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either; they keep you. ”

- Frank Crane

“ Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. ”

- Lillian Hellman

“ Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes. ”

- Hannah More

“ Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ. ”

- Billy Graham

“ Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. ”

- David Sylvian

“ How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice. ”

- Saadi

“ Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections. ”

- Brian Klemmer

“ It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them ”

- Mark Twain

“ Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. ”

- Robert Fulghum

“ In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice. ”

- Eric Lindros

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

- Pete Rose

“ That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ 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

“ Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. ”

- Arthur Hugh Clough

“ Learn by practice. ”

- Martha Graham
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