Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Bird

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

Doris Lessing

If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.

Donald Knuth

The best theory is inspired by practice.

Donald Knuth

If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.

Daniel Snyder

You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

Angela Davis

Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.

Amy Chua

Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.

Amy Chua

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

Anita Diament

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

Andy Lally

Good cardio helps in any athletic practice, but in jujitsu, it has been very helpful late in a sparring session where a long roll starts to take its toll on your cardio.

Ambrose Bierce

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

Ken Duke

I wasn't really tired on Monday, but Tuesday and Wednesday got me. I didn't play a practice round.

I wasn't really nervous. It's something you practice all the time. You think about the situation as a kid.

Anthony Mackie

Practice your improv more than learn your lines. 'Cause there's no way you'll be able to learn all those lines in a short time. You have to realize what you know and what you don't know - and what you don't know, just come up with three alternate lines or improv that you can put in that spot.

Andrew Jackson

You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word.

Anthony Burgess

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

Kevin Cosgrove

He was a little sluggish to start out with. It showed that he hadn't practiced for awhile.

Well, we don't know yet. I would term him day to day. He didn't practice (Monday) and we'll see if he can go (Tuesday).

Alexandra Paul

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put it into practice; but it can never be followed in personal obedience. Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Edward Abbey

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

Atul Gawande

Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.

Aristotle

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

Aristotle

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

Aristotle

We become just by the practice of just actions.

Aristotle

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

Eliphas Levi

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

She really put us on her back tonight. She was there when we were having inconsistencies. We've been having some inconsistencies in practice and that's been reflected in our game.

Monday, it's back to business. Time to work. They come here every single day and practice hard. We practice like we play, and it shows.

Brad Smith

Seth Burris showed the kind of shooter he is. We see that in practice a lot, and I'm awfully proud of him.

Dennis Prager

You know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?'

Democritus

One should practice much sense, not much learning.

Deborah Smith

Alongside Han Kang, there's only one other author I've chosen to translate so far - Bae Suah. Her work is radical both stylistically and politically, influenced by her own translation practice (she's translated the likes of Kafka, Pessoa, and Sadeq Hedayat into Korean). Her language is simply extraordinary.