Quotes about practice
practice worry balls
I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape. Tim Henman
practice historical steps
[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. Thurgood Marshall
practice self denial
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred. Roger Nash Baldwin
practice needs fundamentals
For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing. Thomas Merton
practice silence mind
He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever. Thomas Carlyle
practice errors together
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
practice two world
Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.
practice water intellectual
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton's famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age. Steven Johnson
practice people car
It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to go out and sit in the car, and even in the summertime I'd have to roll up the windows. Because you just couldn't practice a banjo or a fiddle with other people around. Unless they're being paid. Steve Martin
practice mirrors magic
I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.
practice community minorities
The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities. Stephen Harper
practice skills tonight
I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have. Ronald Reagan
practice fearless learn-to-fly
We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage. Sam Keen
practice anxiety fearless
Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
practice carnegie carnegie-hall
How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice. Saadi
practice soul fool
[If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice. Stewart Copeland
practice practice-what-you-preach
Why do you not practice what you preach. St. Jerome
practice church deeds
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?
practice water trying
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
practice firsts sin
First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it. Thomas Watson
practice agents medical
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice. Thomas Szasz
practice
You are what you practice most. Richard Carlson
practice office focus
I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much. Reggie Bush
practice seeking
Practice the precept: find without seeking Robert Bresson
practice arms sides
Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef. Tom Stoppard
practice virtue natural
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. Sallust
practice laughing
You have to learn to laugh all the time. It's a practice of life. It's a practice of happiness. Russell Simmons
practice choices gratefulness
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
practice principles constitution
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. Thomas Hardy
practice community research
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge. Thomas Kuhn
practice generosity benevolence
Generosity is only benevolence in practice. Thomas Ken
practice stories way
The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality. Thomas Keating
practice lifetime
To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.