Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl von Clausewitz

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Dana Perino

If you have a crippling fear of public speaking, recognize that that is perfectly normal. And know that the only way to get over those nerves is to fully understand the material, the points, the policy you are trying to explain - and then practice it a little bit.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

Elia Kazan

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

B. C. Forbes

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

Arthur Keith

The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.

We pretty much do it (full-court press) 24-7. That's how we practice our game.

We practice them, but you can't practice pressure. That's the difference.

Mike Mularkey

We practice probably more than most teams on our special teams and it shows up on the field. And we do a lot more in the spring with our guys, fundamentals and techniques, and it shows up on the field.

Matt Light

We practiced all week in this, ... and, let me tell you, it got old quick.

Aleister Crowley

The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.

Alfred Kazin

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

Aldous Huxley

Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.

Alexander Haig

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

Alexander Hamilton

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

Alexander Hamilton

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

Alexander Hamilton

The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

We worked in practice on the press a lot. And on being smart with our defense. I thought we did that better tonight.

This won't be a graded test, but it will be practice to make us better responders.

Those were spectacular catches. I want to see him out at 15 practices this spring, every one of them, all the way through. Then I'll tell you (where he stands). He showed what he can do. But he can't do that if he's sitting on the sidelines.

Walter Benjamin

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

Adam Carolla

A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

Allan Bloom

Intellectuals ... advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. ... It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.

Ann Brashares

It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.

Andrea Dworkin

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

A. E. Waite

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

Adam Smith

Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.

Our practice tempo was probably a little different than what we've seen.

I think there's more of a sense of urgency. We saw it in practice on Tuesday.

I run all day in practice, so I'm used to it,

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.