Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We weren't in our regular routine, and I could tell in our practices we were somewhere else.

We were prepared for (the Southington press). We spent all day (Wednesday) in practice preparing for the press.

Billy Graham

You choose sin. You practice sin.

Dogen

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

Dogen

Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others.

Dogen

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

Dogen

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

Dogen

If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.

Dogen

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Tonight was a better night for me. I just have to practice more and play like I did tonight.

We don't usually practice on the day of the game.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Let him go, Julian. His entire body isn’t worth one molecule of yours. (Grace) (To Paul) Where I come from, we butchered worthless cowards like you just for practice. (Julian)

Shawn Ryan

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What? Had a dry spell of killing people lately? (Susan) As a matter of fact, yes. If it doesn’t end soon, I might get out of practice. (Otto)

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

Nader al-Masri

I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

Mort Sahl

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.

Ralph Nader

We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.

Rajneesh

Religion is not a result of something that you practice. Religion enters in you any moment you relax. Religion is a flowering of relaxation, not a result of practicing. Remember the difference because when you practice you become more tense.

Michael Pollan

To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.

Michael Pollan

Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

Sheri S. Tepper

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

Seth Godin

A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

Melanie Laurent

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.

Mehmet Oz

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

Michel De Certeau

The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.

Michel De Certeau

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.