I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it’s never done; it’s never perfect, and so it’s the process. It’s like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.
The worst was practicing a stunt for John Wayne in ‘McQ.’ I lost two teeth, broke six ribs, cracked a vertebra and punctured a lung. I spent 12 days in the hospital.
I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.
As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism.
I got an English degree in college and then went to law school because I didn’t know what else to do. I was a lawyer in Houston, Texas. I started writing plays and screenplays, and after about three years of practicing, I decided I would move to Los Angeles and give it a shot.
Since his childhood, Bappa has observed me singing and practicing and is well aware of all sorts of recording and singing arrangements. I have a studio at my home, so whenever he needs my help I make sure I stand by him. I often sing for the tunes that he composes.
I just think repetition and getting the game reps shooting the ball in games really helps, rather than just practicing. You can get game timing.
I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts – magic, juggling, and the high wire.
I like practicing law.
I love football, and I love practicing.
My dad put up a basket on my street, and I was practicing every day. It was just nuts. But I miss it. Whenever I see a ball, I get itchy!
Practicing hard doesn’t guarantee you anything.
It’s very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.
I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.
We have to take every game serious. And when I say serious, I mean doing the right things, practicing good habits.
There’s a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, ‘I don’t want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don’t want some machine between me and my patients.’
I’m a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don’t play for a year, my chops aren’t going to get any worse. I’ve spent my time playing scales, and I don’t necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical.
I actually no longer use ‘art’ as the framing device. I think I’m just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation.
So many people are stealing Bikram Yoga. It’s like you’re practicing medicine, but you’re not a doctor.
You know, I’ve never been in Huntington during the U.S. Open. I’ve been practicing down there for a few days and have watched as they set the area up. It amazed me at how early they begin the setup and what a terrific job they’ve done. It’s a monster production, and I’m excited to be a part of it.
I’m not a ‘practicing’ musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once in awhile.
From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.
The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.
I’m a practicing Christian – and I’m going to keep practicing till I get it right – but I don’t feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
I’m practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don’t know what it is. But I’ve been a straphanger all my life; I know what it’s like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.
I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I’m feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.
So the first thing that I thought about was, ‘How is this car going to handle?’ But then after I’d been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back.
Fundamentally, if there is any secret, it is about the need to find that peace and calm in our personal space with music, as most of ‘learning music’ is about listening to music and practicing over and over again.
Practicing yoga has helped me realize a deeper, grounded way of being in the world. I have learned how to communicate in a meaningful way that makes me smile and have learned the super handy skill of efficiency. Use what you need. Rest what you don’t.
Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.
When it’s football time, that’s where I am – the studying, the working, the practicing, everything.
Nothing guarantees a championship. Nothing. Not having the best players, not practicing the most. Your best chance is if you do the right thing every day.
The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.
Any time I’m not capable of going out there and practicing – missing – is never something to be happy about, unless it’s a day off. But missing a day of – really work – it can be frustrating because somebody out there is getting better. I’m not.
I’m the only one in my family – I’m a practicing Jew – who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.
I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I’m not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
Don’t get stuck in a rut. If you started yesterday’s practice playing arpeggios, start today’s with scales. Also, try to make a song out of what you’re practicing to help break the tedium.
Ever since I was little, I was changing the pace. I think I was just getting bored on the court, so I was trying anything. It’s been working ever since. I’ve been practicing it, and it’s obviously throwing off a lot of players.
I’ve been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I’m preaching, I’m practicing. If I’m telling people I’m boxing and then I’m eating a burger tonight, it’s because I am. I’m not cheating and eating a salad and then being like, ‘Yeah! Burgers are cool!’
Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That’s what I did.
My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.
These people that worked with my dad doing landscaping were in a grunge band so the music on the cover of Rolling Stone was in a very real way connected to people practicing in the woods near my house while I was home doing my homework.
I started doing ’30 Rock’ and started writing ‘Mystery Team’ at the beginning of that. While I was doing ‘Mystery Team,’ I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got ‘Community.’ It’s like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit.
All the training for the combine was basically practicing for the different drills that we would see at the combine. Rather than football specific drills that we would do at BC.
In the balance of my professional life, I’ve had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.
I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn’t make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what’s expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage.
I don’t see any harm in working, getting out there, and practicing.
My teacher was still practicing Bach until his death at 89. I have no doubt that if I live that long, I’ll be doing the same thing.
I am a practicing Hindu and have made no secrets about it.
I’m not a practicing Jew but my great-grandparents were. It’s part of our family history.
I loved going to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei to watch all the old Chinese people doing tai chi and practicing kung fu. The monument was made of white marble, and it was beautiful. Sometimes my dad and I would practice with them.
