Musicians Practicing Quotes & Sayings

His mouth was hot and hungry, and he kissed the way no man should kiss and still be allowed to run free. — Linda Howard

Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult. — Peter Drucker

Atom from atom yawns as far As moon from earth, or star from star. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The unlikely group that resulted from the union of five diverse characters in their late twenties operated with surprising harmony. This cohesiveness could be attributed to two factors: 1) everyone's issues and embarrassing pasts were plainly disclosed prior to the gang's formation and 2) the clan had been expressly conceived as a male support group. — Zack Love

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's. — Ezra Taft Benson

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists ... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot

Just as novice musicians must spend many hours practicing basic skills like playing scales or mastering difficult passages--and frequently do so in the presence of their teacher, receiving immediate and individualized feedback--so must our students spend many hours practicing the basic intellectual skills of our discipline. — James M. Lang

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it. — Mark Burnett

Mia Thermopolis, 1005 Thompson Street, #4A — Meg Cabot

I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and make a good living doing what they do, but nobody knows who they are. They wake up every day and they have the ability to get paid practicing their art, but underneath it all, if you scratched the surface, you still get, "If I only had my own show ... ," or "If I only had my own band ... " It's what people always do when they want to be their own star. — Denis Leary

It wasn't enough to be positive, focused and fearless, I had to take action! Musicians say that the hardest part of practicing is taking the instrument out of the case. To begin is to be half done! — Joey Reiman

In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave. — Naomi Weisstein

In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty in ourselves and the trust we put in others. — Emily Thorne

The striking thing about Ericsson's study is that he and his colleagues couldn't find any "naturals," musicians who floated effortlessly to the top while practicing a fraction of the time — Malcolm Gladwell

Every bit of life comes with instructions, when we are attentive enough to notice. — Karen Maezen Miller

Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up situation and making it good and making it real and just playing, just practicing and playing. Like the musicians that I played piano with: they never expect to be rich or famous, but they, for the sheer joy of it, play every day, all day. — Jeff Goldblum

Control over consciousness is not simply a cognitive skill. At least as much as intelligence, it requires the commitment of emotions and will. It is not enough to know how to do it; one must do it, consistently, in the same way as athletes or musicians who must keep practicing what they know in theory. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi