Nancy Lopez Quotes

I just want to be deliberate in the process of knowing what it takes to play.

Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.

I go into every game like I'm playing at school!

When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.

There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that

You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.

A mind to serve for the peace of all human beings in the world is needed in Aikido, and not the mind of one who wishes to be strong or who practices only to fell an opponent.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

When I do music I don't do it with a purpose in mind. I just feel like it's a little bit contrived if you try to do something like that. It's got to come organically.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.