If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

We’ve got this game at practice where we shoot it when we’re down. She’s always the best at shooting it and banking it. That was a big moment and shift.

To perform you need practice, to practice you need passion.

How can you not care?””Practice,” Magnus said, looking back to his book and turning the page.

Don’t think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice.

Generally it is our practice to contact the Secret Service to make them aware of a counterfeit situation.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Jody has played in a practice match and has improved,

We just have to get back to the basics. We’re going to practice our passing, controlling the ball, collecting the ball and our communication.

It was a good lap, we ran about the same as we did in practice. We practiced a lot of race setups. I think we have a top-five race car.

Pull out the measuring cup and the scale once or twice just for practice. You don’t have to do it all the time, but you see what it actually looks like. If you don’t want...

If you really want to get good at anything, you’ve got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the...

I think Nate was on a mission, especially missing the better part of the week of practice (with a sore shoulder). He wanted to prove that he was healthy first of all and he wanted...

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are.

I feel good but it doesn’t make sense just to jump back into full practice. I’ll go long tomorrow [in practice]. My goal in the next week or two is to get through a game...

Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

I say take what good you can get, and next time make it better,

Everything was just the way our training staff and medical staff had it planned. He was on the practice floor doing the things everybody else was doing.

Life is a practice. When you ‘fail,’ you can immediately begin practicing again.

Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above...

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen...

In that regard, it’s very important for him to take as close to a full speed batting practice as he can. It looks like he’s able to do that now, and I’ve never seen that...

This weekend is really important. It’s one of the weekends we’ve been working from the very first practice for, and this is where all the training and work we’ve done all season will pay off....

It is slow, gradual pressure that is the formula for both genius and earthquakes. Life tells us our secrets in these cracks, the way events conspire with each other in hidden grottos. This movement is...

To have a team come through and do what you asked them to do in practice, to have that transfer over, first of all I’m really proud that they could do that.

We know every game is big at this point. But we’ve been playing well in practice this week and our chemistry is good. We all have trust in what coach is doing, and we’re playing...

Practice, practice, practice. I’ve been practicing at the same hitting style forever and I’ve been getting better.

Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution...

You become a great writer by writing lots and lots of stories, not by rewriting the same story over and over again.

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Thinking, discriminating and practice – all three constitute the basic human characteristics.

One owes loyalty, only, to those who demonstrate in kind.

[With both qualifying and racing taking place on Saturday, racers will have an open practice on Friday.] Being able to run on Friday really helps, … It gives us time to make sure everything is...

It will take quite a long time before you find your calm, serene mind in your practice.

The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.

One or a couple of good thoughts may be a fluke or derived from life’s challenges, a few can be a practice or a lesson from failures and bad experiences but the consistency of excellent...

They’d worked us really hard. We got in here, had a practice and got right into things.

BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? BERENGER: Yes, but for a man to turn into a rhinoceros is abnormal beyond question. DUDARD: Well, of course,...

The fact that you lack the fruits is not a proof that you don’t have seeds. It’s not too late to drop your potentials into a good soil. Do it now; harvest awaits you soon!

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

He’s been telling me to make sure that if you practice at 11 o’clock and (Karl) wants you to be there at 10, you show up at 8:45,

Genius will only take you to ‘good.’ Practice will take you to ‘Master.

The only thing we ever asked is they’d be the hardest-working boy on the ice, whether it’s practice or games. Above and beyond that, that’s all you can ask. I think that helps create a...

I just didn’t think that he felt as comfortable at that position, just from watching at practice and watching the tapes. I didn’t want to take 15 days [of spring practice] and all of the...

We feel like we had two good days (of practice) Thursday and Friday.

Ask yourself the secret of YOUR success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.”

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.