Practice Quotes · Page 84

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon…

— Horace Mann

That's the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!

— John Grisham

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

— David Frum

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

— Ram Dass

Hate less, love more. Take less, give more. Preach less, practice more. Worry less, laugh more.

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

— Elia Kazan

I do practice active gratitude. In my thoughts, actions words I am deeply grateful for what life has given me.

— Sharmila Tagore

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

— Jascha Heifetz

The only problem that occurs in the practice of tantra is when you don't practice tantra and fool yourself. You get caught…

— Frederick Lenz

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind…

— Samuel Johnson

Id go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didnt have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like…

— Amanda Beard

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme,…

— Virginia Woolf

I followed in my brother's footsteps. I used to wake up at 5 a.m, and wait for him to complete his cricket…

— Smriti Mandhana

The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without…

— Martin Luther

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become. It’s just…

— Ed Sheeran

I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go…

— Emily Saliers

I was a violent, self-destructive teenager, who was adopted right at the end of World War II. I was lied to and…

— Sam Hamill

In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most…

— Thomas Bernhard

One of the things that I noticed in my private law practice was the fact that so many people had gotten ripped…

— Roy Cooper

The nature of the mind is such that if certain mental qualities are developed on a sound basis, they not only remain,…

— Dalai Lama

I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates' brothers. I was a…

— Josie Loren

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to…

— Jacques Monod

When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel…

— Pema Chodron

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and…

— David Hume

I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

— George Carlin

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Doris Lessing

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

— Jonathan Gottschall

I spend a lot of time with the fans during my practice sessions, and then off court I meet them every time.

— Juan Martin del Potro

“You want to get rid of the hemming and hawing, the “ums” and “uhs,” and anything that disrupts your flow. That takes…

— Anonymous

My life is calm. Once I get home from practice, I just want to spend time with my family.

— Cain Velasquez

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

— Thomas Jefferson

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

— Andy Hargreaves

I used to be the kid that when we got to practice I didn't even stretch.

— Diana Taurasi

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

— Tayari Jones

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable. I like the term “stretch” for describing what deliberate practice feels like,”

— Cal Newport

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

— Harold MacMillan

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

— Wayne Gretzky