"Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good."
- Malcolm Gladwell
Hard Work
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle
Personal Growth
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
- Will Durant
Achievement
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."
- Pele
Success
"The only way to achieve mastery is through practice."
- James Clear
Achievement
"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
Determination
"I’m a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen."
- Tony Dorsett
Focus
"If you want to become a musician you must practice. There is no other way, there are no shortcuts."
- Ron Ottley
Determination
"You play like you practice and practice how you play."
- Marcus Luttrell
Focus
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership
"The difference between knowledge and skill is practice."
- Holly Marie Simmers
Learning
"Practice is the best of all instructors."
- Publilius Syrus
Learning
"Practice makes perfect, that is my way."
- Tony Adams
Determination
"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."
- Vince Lombardi
Persistence
"The more I practice the luckier I get."
- Arnold Palmer
Hard Work
"Practicing is the process of taking a task that seems difficult and doing it repeatedly, over days and weeks until you are able to do it well and easily."
- Ron Ottley
Persistence
"Everything we do is practice for something greater than where we currently are. Practice only makes for improvement."
- Les Brown
Personal Growth
"The more you practice the better you’ll be, the harder you train the great in you they’ll see."
- Alcurtis Turner
Motivation
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
- Anton Chekhov
Learning
"If you don’t practice, you don’t deserve to win."
- Andre Agassi
Motivation
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
- Benjamin Franklin
Education
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
- Aristotle
Learning
"Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire."
- Martha Graham
Determination
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is practice."
- Vladimir Horowitz
Achievement
"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
- Billie Jean King
Achievement
"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."
- Joe Paterno
Determination
"The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create."
- Jocko Willink
Creativity
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
- Jim Rohn
Determination
"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best."
- Marva Collins
Personal Growth
"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practising dancing or to learn to live by practising living, the principles are the same."
- Martha Graham
Learning
"Practice makes the master."
- Patrick Rothfuss
Achievement
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
- Robert Collier
Success
"The expert in anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
Learning
"Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation."
- Ann Voskamp
Transformation
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills
Success
"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
- Richard Branson
Learning
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
- Hyman Rickover
Determination
"Learn to pursue what you need to practice, not just what you think you should practice."
- Douglas Baldwin
Self-awareness
"Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know."
- Rembrandt
Learning
"Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers."
- Leonardo da Vinci
Determination
"Practice puts brains in your muscles."
- Sam Snead
Learning
"The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind."
- Jack Kornfield
Mindfulness
"The most valuable practice aid is patience."
- Howard Snell
Persistence
"If you hit a wrong note then make it right by what you play afterwards."
- Joe Pass
Adaptation
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
- Benjamin Franklin
Learning
"The more I practice, the luckier I get."
- Ted Walsh
Hard Work
"Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought with ardor and attended to with diligence."
- Abigail Adams
Learning
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
- Leonardo da Vinci
Inspiration
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra
Awareness
"Don't just memorize notes, memorize the feeling of the feeling of playing them."
- Madeline Bruser
Mindfulness
"If a hard bit is giving you a hard time, you should give it a hard time."
- Phillip Johnston
Persistence
"Good listening is always the first step in the process that creates technique and capability."
- Howard Snell
Learning
"It's important to practice at speed of no mistakes."
- Lucinda Macworth Young
Focus
"The value of an exercise depends on your state of mind. If you don't find it interesting, then it is not useful."
- Madeline Bruser
Mindfulness
"In learning you will teach and in teaching you will learn"
- Phill Collins
Learning
"To study music we must learn the rules. To create music we must break them."
- Nadia Boulanger
Creativity
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- Dalai Lama
Compassion
"Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong."
Motivation
"The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles, and to practice daily."
Motivation
"Practice makes perfect."
Motivation
"The more you practice, the better you get."
Motivation