Practice Quotes
4199 quotes by 2521 authors
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Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that…
— Giacomo Casanova
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What's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something…
— Richelle Mead
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The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into…
— Wendell Berry
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Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief…
— John Berendt
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His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.
— Joyce Meyer
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Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried…
— Francine Rivers
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Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable…
— Margaret Thatcher
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And it really doesn't matter if we're under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.
— David Levithan
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What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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You can only fight the way you practice
— Miyamoto Musashi
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A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and…
— J M Coetzee
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Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is…
— Mineko Iwasaki
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If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns,…
— Melvin Burgess
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God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while.†Smiling, he returned to his chair.…
— Richelle Mead
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The Master said, “To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from…
— Confucius
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