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Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.

What makes it possible to learn advanced math fairly quickly is that the human brain is capable of learning to follow a given set of rules without understanding them, and apply them in an intelligent and useful fashion. Given sufficient practice, the brain eventually discovers (or creates) meaning in what began as a meaningless game.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able to invent ways of doing better. Not only practice; obviously you have to practice. But to invent things how to do better. If somebody doesn't know what invention means, he should stop violin playing! You can't explain everything... Not practicing only: Think how to achieve quality.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

Learning how to love your neighbor requires a willingness to draw on the strength of Jesus Christ as you die to self and live for Him. Living in this manner allows you to practice biblical love for others in spite of adverse circumstances or your feelings to the contrary.

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.

Everything is practice.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.

The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.

I can cook a little bit but pretty much when I get back from practice I am pretty tired that I just order out.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.