Practice Quotes
4199 quotes by 2538 authors
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[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.
— Thurgood Marshall
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I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for…
— Edward Villella
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Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I…
— Lorrie Fair
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One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another…
— Al Kaline
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I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go to an audition, my friends would go…
— Shailene Woodley
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Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have…
— Ian Macfarlane
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One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have…
— Otto Lilienthal
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Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have…
— Charles Rumney Samson
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Great pilots are made not born. . . . A man may possess good eyesight, sensitive hands, and perfect coordination, but the end result is…
— Johnnie Johnson
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One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing…
— Lev Grossman
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Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they…
— Thomas Kuhn
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But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into…
— Nancy Kerrigan
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When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward either life or…
— Walter Russell
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Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.
— Dashiell Hammett
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There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a…
— Charles Baudelaire
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To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest…
— Jonathan Haidt
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Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
— Jonathan Haidt
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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I think that Billie (Jean King) and Zina (Garrison), they have a whole lot of experience. Even if I don't quite agree with something or…
— Venus Williams
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