Quotes about practice
practice errors done
A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694) Isaac Newton
practice california bored
I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist. Isabel Allende
practice feelings democracy
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. Irving Babbitt
practices scheduling tougher
By scheduling the tougher tournaments that we go to, the coaching, conditioning and practices that we have.
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 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 people world
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself. George Bernard Shaw
practice civilization rotten
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
practice imbeciles asking
As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.
practice justice one-day
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day. Fred F. Fielding
practice community improvement
Process improvement is most valuable in raising the floor of a community's practice. Fred Brooks
practice feelings society
Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness. Erich Fromm
practice discipline feelings
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
practice understanding doctrine
Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them. Hannah More
practice imagination may
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
practice doe socialism
The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does. Greg Gutfeld
practice justice mind
The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did. Harold H. Greene
practice economics brake
Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable. Harold MacMillan
practice
I don't know if it's a concussion, but he got dinged enough that he didn't practice, Mark Richt
practice mind intellectual
Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is. Indira Gandhi
practice quality firsts
The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation. Jack Kornfield
practice samadhi
Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice.
practice meditation holding-on
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.
practice old-habits suffering
As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.
practice
Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
practice independence quality
The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience.
practice water confusion
We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long time—but to look at it as just that, a vehicle, a raft to help us cross through the waters of doubt, confusion, desire, and fear.
practice goal mind
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
practice people competition
Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition. Jack Canfield
practice music-practice
There will never come a time when you don't have to practice J. J. Johnson
practice civilization enemy
Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION! Jack London
practice focus vision
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. Jack Nicklaus