Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Mamet

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

They're reliable kids. They come to practice and so for they've been working their butts off.

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's a play we practice every day and I swear that was the first time I've thrown that lob (pass) that perfect.

I tried to get out a lot more this summer and practice more this year.

Gary Hamel

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

Gary Hamel

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

Jerry Bridges

As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.

Gloria Feldt

The more we practice risking to leap, the more proficient we become, the more our fears melt away, and we grow ever stronger in the doing.

Frances Wright

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

George Washington

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

George Washington

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

George W. Bush

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

Hillary Clinton

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

Guy Forget

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

Gore Vidal

We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act.

Gore Vidal

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Harold Rosenberg

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

Cate Blanchett

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

Julia Cameron

Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways. Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely? Do you have socdks? An extra set of sheets? What about a new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work? Allow yourself to pitch out some of your ragged clothes. You don't have to keep everything.

Judith Butler

In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names

Homer

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Sun Myung Moon

True Love comes into being when you practice the highest possible love in the lowest possible place. There you deal with impossible people and try to raise them into the highest possible people by showing them the highest possible standard. There is where True Love can be found and can start.

Sue Gardner

Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.

Richard Stallman

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

Samuel Alexander

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

John Calvin

The very word baptize, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient church.

Joe Klein

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

George Leonard

Practice is the path of mastery.

George Ade

One cannot rest except after steady practice.

Gabriela Sabatini

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

Geddy Lee

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.