Quotes of: Practice-makes Keyword

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

Dawn French

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

William Osler

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

Peter Zumthor

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

JR

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Jeffrey Kluger

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.

Lupe Fiasco

I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.

Shepard Fairey

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

Don’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.

4:50 from Paddington

Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.

The Art of Self-Control

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

Sleep is a shallow death we practice every night.

How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Sufi Thought and Action

...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.

Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces

Raphael was a bouda and they viewed sex as a fun recreational activity that should be practiced vigorously and often.

Magic Slays

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

The Last Olympian

A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.

Last Sacrifice

No.' It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's empowering.

The Little Silkworm

The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and the quantity of practice time.

Learning Strategies for Musical Success

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

The Letters

Life is a practice. You are what you do each day.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life