Quotes About Practice

"I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match."

— Mia Hamm, gold-medal soccer player

"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good."

— Malcolm Gladwell author and sociologist

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required."

— Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

"This kind of obsessive preparation does two things. It creates consistency. Practice is what enables Greg Rusedski to hit a serve at a hundred and twenty-five miles per hour again and again. It's what enables a pianist to play Chopin's double-thirds 'tude at full speed, striking every key with precisely calibrated force. More important, practice changes the way a task is perceived."

— Malcolm Gladwell

"Practice makes an actor excel. It is like cycling and motor driving. It is an art, which can be learnt and practiced."

— Anupam Kher

"Practice makes any task easier"

— Unknown

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

— Aristotle

"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast. Norman Vincent Peale"

— Unknown

"Practice constantly and soon those actions and reactions will become easy to perform, for any act with practice becomes easy."

— OG MANDINO

"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

"Patience through practice is the key to developing your gift, master your gift."

— Justicia Minkah

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"Most people thought Michael Phelps reached his full potential when he won the 2008 Olympic medal, but he broke that record and went on to win eight more medals at the 2012 Olympics with practice and persistence."

— Unknown

"For 37 years I've practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!"

— Pablo De Sarasate, Famous Spanish Violinist and Composer

"The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time."

— Cyndi Lauper

"Most top performers practice for around 10,000 hours per year."

— Malcolm Gladwell

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

— Eleanor Roosevelt