#practicing

Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#because #closer #difficult #doing #family

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#field #find #how #keep #learning

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#been #better #get #i #injuries

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it. ↗

— Adam Clymer

#book #different #fix #get #look

I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance. ↗

— Heinrich Neuhaus

#piano #practicing #art

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#dancing #did #done #following #future

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

#job #practicing #ready #somebody #somewhere

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

#job #practicing #ready #somebody #somewhere

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #culture #earn #fact #his

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #culture #earn #fact #his