Consistent Practice Quotes

Repetition is the mother of skill.

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.

The more I practise, the luckier I become

I've been doing plays ever since school. There's never really been a stop to it.

Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

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

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

It takes a lot of un-spectacular preparation, to get spectacular results

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

The most powerful benefits of meditation come from having a regular, daily practice.

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

Meditation takes discipline, just like learning how to play piano. If you want to learn how to play the piano, it takes more than a few minutes a day, once a while, here and there. If you really want to learn any important skill, whether it is playing piano or meditation, it grows with perseverance, patience, and systematic training.

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.

I try to work hard each and every day to become a better player.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

I've been running like this since I was seven.