Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Baudelaire

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Charlie Munger

Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.

Edward Jenner

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

Dean Acheson

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

David Hilbert

The tool which serves as intermediary between theory and practice, between thought and observation, is mathematics; it is mathematics which builds the linking bridges and gives the ever more reliable forms.

David Hume

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

David Brooks

The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

Barry Commoner

Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

Denzel Washington

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

Billy Donovan

The one thing you've got to do with reading is it's something you've got to do every day. Anything you want to do in life, you've got to practice every day.

When I was little I didn't like going to practice so much. Now, that is the only thing I want to do is go to practice and train.

We're going to try it as a practice run and see if it works.

Gregg Popovich

We would probably never put him and Timmy in the same room, ... because they never would find out when practice is.

Calvin Coolidge

If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.

Bertrand Russell

There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.

Charles Hodge

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

Bob Ross

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

A minimum required standard to obtain a massage license is quite a different matter from a voluntary certification evidencing higher-level skills. Licensing standards should be set at a level sufficient to assure safe practice, but low enough to avoid screening out those individuals who choose to perform basic work

Bill Monroe

Practice every time you get a chance

Bob McDonnell

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

Bill Walsh

The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.

Bill Foster

Practice being excited.

Benny Goodman

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

Bill Gates

There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.

Bill Gates

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

Bob Gill

We need practice solving problems.

Bobby Bowden

(We're going to) let them practice and see if one separates,

Brigham Young

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

Robert Jordan

We feel comfortable. What we practice is what we do.

Ai Weiwei

Every day I'm learning something new from the practice. It's very rewarding.

Jascha Heifetz

The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.

Jared Gilman

When I was taking my canoeing lessons I was given this oar to practice with, and I decided to have everyone sign it. All the cast and crew signed it and now I'm going to frame it.

Jared Diamond

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.