Quotes about practice
practice customs
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along. Michel de Montaigne
practice diversity may
Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.
practice broken promise
To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks. Mason Cooley
practice theory come-up
Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.
practice principles gullible
I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
practice use elements
A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost. Mary Antin
practice people vision
Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives. Michael Gerber
practice giving healthy
Today I will practice healthy giving, understanding that caretaking and compulsive giving don't work. I choose what I want to give, to whom, when, and how much. It takes time to learn how to give in healthy ways. It takes time to learn to receive. Balance will come. Melody Beattie
practice perspective looks
It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
practice long liberty
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. Michelangelo Antonioni
practice political use
Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action. Michel Foucault
practice soul aberration
Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.
practice use creation
The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.
practice matter kind
A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.
practice theory theory-of-knowledge
[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
practice people doctrine
the truths of Christianity are constant, unchanging, and meant for all people, times, and places. But the methods by which truth is articulated and practiced must be culturally appropriated, and therefore constantly translated ...if doctrine is constant and practice is constantly changing, the result is living orthodoxy. Mark Driscoll
practice america independence
[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice. John Quincy Adams
practice creative directors
Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be. Norman Foster
practice principles
Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices. Norm MacDonald
practice rivals merit
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
practice two fool
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
practice fruit needs
I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success. Neil Diamond
practice honor church
One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him. Theodore L. Cuyler
practice doubt ongoing
While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice. Theodore Bikel
practice kind solemnity
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity. Theaster Gates
practice race individuality
Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race. Margaret Sanger
practice pounds limits
In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds. Kevin VanDam
practice play worry
It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both. Michael Emerson
practice masters
Practice makes the master. Patrick Rothfuss
practice finding-yourself one-day
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it. Laurence Gonzales
practice meditation fundamentals
Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest. Paul Brunton
practice surfing stranger
Couch surfing refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment. Patricia Marx
practice mind incentives
Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on. Patricia Schroeder