Quotes About Practice And Preparation

#1. I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Will Smith

#2. Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

Eric Butterworth

#3. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

Bobby Knight

#4. Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap.

Roger Angell

#5. There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Stanislav Grof

#6. I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.

Glenn Turner

#7. Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.

Steven Spielberg

#8. What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises - no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Frank Herbert

#9. Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.

Charlotte Mason

#10. 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

#11. I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.

Bum Phillips

#12. Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Lewis Mumford

#13. To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

James Stephens

#14. You must practice to be able to return to essential principles at any moment.

Koichi Tohei

#15. Practice is simply preparation for success.

Zig Ziglar

#16. I dreamt of you last night - as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. Confidence sometimes requires purposeful preparation and practice.

Sam Owen

#18. But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.

Charles Stross

#19. Whatever you want to do, if you do it with all your heart, it will happen.

William Kamkwamba

#20. Isn't reading a kind of preparation for life?'
But life is composed of things other than books. It is as if an athlete, on entering the stadium, were to complain that he's not outside exercising.This was the goal of your exercise, of your weights, your practice ring and your training partners.

Epictetus

#21. Remove the fear, and the answer comes into focus.

Oprah Winfrey

#22. Spectacular performances are preceded by spectacular preparation

Frank Giampaolo

#23. Nobody reaches expert status without intense preparation. Excellence, then, is a matter of practice, not talent.6

Jeff Goins

#24. If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

Robin S. Sharma

#25. How you run the race - your planning, preparation, practice, and performance - counts for everything. Winning or losing is a by-product, and aftereffect, of that effort.

John Wooden

#26. [Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

Rebecca West

#27. But love was not about practice or preparation, it was pure chance; if you took your time with it you ran the risk of having it evaporate before it had even begun

Alice Hoffman

#28. My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration ... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.

Margaret Atwood