Quotes of: Practice-makes Keyword

If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

William Gibson

Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from o...

Ludivine Sagnier

Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over...

Arvind Gupta

I don’t think I like the idea that you just control me, but you get to do anything you like.” “Ah, but that’s because you don’t understand the power exchange. Note that I used the word exchange. Listen, there are as many different ways to p...

A Dom is Forever

What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it, is that it's the closest thing to being God you're ever going to get. All the decisions are yours. You decide when the sun comes up. You decide wh...

The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

Samuel Alexander

I practice a lot. I practice in the winter when it's cold in Connecticut - a lot. I practice in my bedroom on the carpet - a lot. For all the practice I do, I should be a better golfer than I am.

Stuart Scott

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just...

Gary Wolf

There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremel...

Jimmy Johnson

When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.

Tyson Chandler

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Sasha Cohen

'Vogue' has the power to make and break - whether it's fashion trends, designers, models, and yes, even industry practices.

Tyra Banks

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Practice silence, practice patience, practice to love every existence, peace will be there.

Debasish Mridha

Are you still doing that crap?" I ask. "You can't even do it properly," Eileen says. "Just a matter of practice," Simone says. "Wow! Practicing how to poison yourself and make your breath reek like the fart of a seagull!" Eileen cries.

Does My Head Look Big In This?

We don’t see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solve...

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Best practices are those practices that generally produce the best results or minimize risk.

Email Marketing Rules: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Best Practices That Power Email Marketing Success

You do not say, “This is enlightenment,” or “That is not right practice.” Even in wrong practice, when you realize it and continue, there is right practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandal...

The Making of the Messiah