Practice Quotes

“I have to practise to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.”

“In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.”

“The being of all virtues, and chiefly of temperance, depends on the practice of them.”

“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”

“Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”

“I try to work to improve myself every day and I try to do on the pitch what I do during the training sessions.”

“Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and then proceed to greater.”

“Whatever you would make habitual, practise it.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

“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.”

"Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice."

Martin H. Fischer

"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the divine."

Ludwig van Beethoven

"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."

Miles Davis

"Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that and just play."

Charlie Parker

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Thomas A. Edison

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Will Durant

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."

"If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it."

Jascha Heifetz

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

"One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try."

Sophocles

"Everything is hard before it is easy."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Learn thoroughly what should be learnt, and then live up to that learning."

Thiruvalluvar

“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”

Xunzi

“Learn thoroughly what should be learnt; then live by what was learnt.”

Thiruvalluvar

“Practice makes perfect.”

English Proverb