Quotes about practice
practice firsts citizens
O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward. Horace
practice trying imagine
It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it. Herb Kelleher
practice people personality
People with different personalities, different approaches, different values succeed not because one set of values or priorities is superior but because their values and practices are genuine.
practice feet simplicity
As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth. Henry David Thoreau
practice wish transcendentalism
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
practice use flavor
Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour him, partly for experiment's sake; but though it afforded me a momentary enjoyment, notwithstanding a musky flavor, I saw that the longest use would not make that a good practice, however it might seem to have your woodchucks ready dressed by the village butcher.
practice listening training
I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice. Jill Scott
practice track consistency
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. Jeremy Bentham
practice paying-taxes debt
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt. Jennifer Dunn
practice development framework
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. Gro Harlem Brundtland
practice rooms strategy
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time. Grover Norquist
practice walking-sticks vines
I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things. Gifford Pinchot
practice two world
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace
practice pay-the-price progress
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day
practice sophistry facts
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible. Harriet Ann Jacobs
practice silence grace
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise. Harriet Beecher Stowe
practice imagination greed
Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better. Gregory Maguire
practice two one-day
If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it. Ignacy Jan Paderewski
practice green time-and-money
Lack of time and money create really bad green practices. Ian Somerhalder
practice listening promise
Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it. Howard Gordon
practice perfect theory
Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. Hosea Ballou
practice doubt creeds
Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
practice storm earth
If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth. The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms. Hannah Arendt
practice each-day four
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. Guy Forget
practice heterosexuality-is people
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
practice people literature
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.
practice conservative individual
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. Harold Rosenberg
practice personality philosopher
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate. Jacques Derrida
practice perfect matter
No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I'll correct it, but otherwise, I do it my Jackie Chan way. Jackie Chan
practice stronger leap
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. Gloria Feldt
practice meditation important
When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation. Jiddu Krishnamurti
practice ideas evil
Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police. Gilbert K. Chesterton
practice creative midnight
I'm heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with 'Glee' and then practice with LXD till about midnight. Harry Shum, Jr.