Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

He couldn't practice all week, and it showed.

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

Randy Carlyle

He had been scoring a lot in practice and we talked to him about it three weeks ago. He delivered.

He had to do so many performances at each level, not just practice, but performances.

He has unbelievable hand-eye coordination. He does practice that.

He hustles on every play. He was in the right spot (on the game-winning basket). He never takes a play off in practice or in games. That?s what makes him so tough.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

I don't get real vocal in a meet, but in practice I can get vocal.

I did it in the first practice, I don't have to do it again.

Carmelo Anthony

I can't even remember. To me, it's just going to be like practice. . . . I don't even look at it as trying out.

David Korten

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

David Suzuki

Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.

Bryce Courtenay

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Theory is the practice of the impotent.

Agnieszka Radwanska

When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.

Alan King

I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.

Charlotte Bronte

The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.

Alan Watts

Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

Alan Moore

With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous

Alan Hovhaness

There is nothing like practice.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.

Chogyam Trungpa

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Chogyam Trungpa

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

Cheryl Strayed

So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

Cheri Huber

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.

Charles Lamb

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

Chanakya

He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

Charles Baudelaire

There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.