Quotes about practice
practice people brain
Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent. Jerry Lee Lewis
practice ideas america
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through life without encountering ideas or practices that annoy them. George Will
practice track consistency
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. Jeremy Bentham
practice paying-taxes debt
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt. Jennifer Dunn
practice development framework
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. Gro Harlem Brundtland
practice rooms strategy
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time. Grover Norquist
practice walking-sticks vines
I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things. Gifford Pinchot
practice two world
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace
practice pay-the-price progress
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day
practice sophistry facts
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible. Harriet Ann Jacobs
practice silence grace
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise. Harriet Beecher Stowe
practice imagination greed
Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better. Gregory Maguire
practice two one-day
If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it. Ignacy Jan Paderewski
practice green time-and-money
Lack of time and money create really bad green practices. Ian Somerhalder
practice listening promise
Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it. Howard Gordon
practice perfect theory
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. Hosea Ballou
practice doubt creeds
Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
practice storm earth
If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth. The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms. Hannah Arendt
practice piano waste
Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute. George Carlin
practice might phrases
The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.
practice america hypocrisy
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. Frederick Douglass
practice alive staying-alive
Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can. Frank Sinatra
practice yield justice
A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another occasion indulge its own will. Felix Frankfurter
practice mind affirmation
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest. Fay Weldon
practice undertaken
I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself. Rick Boucher
practice snaps
I can't take snaps because I'd probably get killed. In practice, I can't really do that much. They don't give us the room. Pat McAfee
practice games adults
As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint. Jean Piaget
practice civilized-nations moral
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. Jerrold Nadler
practice race giving
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need. Jesse Owens
practices year
Every year we've come to California, it's been raining. But we get all our practices in, and it's been fun. David Thomas
practice trying
Everyone went on trying to practice and do things as usual. But it was always in the back of guys' minds. Marcus Trufant
practice whether
Every day, set the tone, whether it's in practice or in a game.
practice prayer sun
Every day we end practice with a prayer that the sun will come out.