#practice

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#cast #compass #knows #like #loves

Practice transforms a skill into an art ↗

— Siddharth Joshi

#business #inspirational #leadership #practice #art

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. ↗

— Johann Sebastian Bach

#music #practice #success #music

...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard... ↗

— Morgan Matson

#gift #practice #talent #crime

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#also #always #been #continuing #done

This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory and criticism. I would argue that a closer analysis of collaborative and collective art practices can reveal a more complex model of social change and identity, one in which the binary oppositions of divided vs. coherent subjectivity, desiring singularity vs. totalizing collective, liberating distanciation vs. stultifying interdependence, are challenged and complicated. ↗

— Grant H. Kester

#collaborative #contemporary #modernism #practice #subjectivity

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ↗

— Edward Cocker

#avidly #carefully #intelligently #into #learn

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#i #never #once #practice #recommend

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can. ↗

— Travis Barker

#i #i can #much #pad #play

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. ↗

— Mark Twain

#god #idiot #made #practice #school