Famous Quotes & Sayings

We pretty much do it (full-court press) 24-7. That's how we practice our game.

We practice them, but you can't practice pressure. That's the difference.

Mike Mularkey

We practice probably more than most teams on our special teams and it shows up on the field. And we do a lot more in the spring with our guys, fundamentals and techniques, and it shows up on the field.

David Korten

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

Alan Watts

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

David Hilbert

The tool which serves as intermediary between theory and practice, between thought and observation, is mathematics; it is mathematics which builds the linking bridges and gives the ever more reliable forms.

Denzel Washington

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

Charlotte Bronte

The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

Charles Lamb

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

Charles Baudelaire

There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Charles Baudelaire

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Bob Ross

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Bob McDonnell

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

When I was little I didn't like going to practice so much. Now, that is the only thing I want to do is go to practice and train.

Dick Cavett

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Benjamin Franklin

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Bill Foster

Practice being excited.

Benny Goodman

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

Bill Gates

There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.

Ai Weiwei

Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.

Sam Jones

Back to back baby. We put the work in at practice and it counted.

No we're not going to practice at 5:30 a.m.. We're going to be disciplined but I've had enough of that. I've got to get some sleep.

Practice is a substitute for talent; however, there is no substitute for practice.

These AAU teams are amazing. They practice all year. They're well coached. They play a lot of games.

I've thrown 55 in practice (in the shot put). For some reason I haven't been able to do it in a meet.

It was a long week (of practice). We were embarrassed, but now that's gone. We're 1-0 in the MAC, and that's all that matters.

I've been working on my shot in practice. I just want to be an all-around player.

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field.

This is a real inventor. This is somebody who really tried to put it into practice.

Jamie Dixon

This is the first time he's really been able to practice in two years.

That's just something we need to work on. We talked about it at practice (Tuesday) and we need to make sure that we're getting better.