Practice Quotes
4199 quotes by 2538 authors
-
The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it,…
— Yehudi Menuhin
-
In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the…
— Cheikh Anta Diop
-
Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
— Rembrandt
-
Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you…
— Jan Karon
-
I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of…
— Nancy Spero
-
Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul. ...
— Jean Houston
-
We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative…
— Rosemary Radford Ruether
-
In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem, be at the…
— Rosemary Radford Ruether
-
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
-
A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an…
— Abraham Verghese
-
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
— Murray Bookchin
-
It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals,…
— Isaac Barrow
-
He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror…
— K D Lang
-
I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.
— Shannon Miller
-
Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart…
— PZ Myers
-
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
— Patricia Hill Collins
-
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and…
— Patricia Hill Collins
-
I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not…
— William Labov
-
The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
-
Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to…
— Sheila Jeffreys
Who Wrote These Practice Quotes
2,538 authors contributed a total of 4,199 Practice Quotes, led by these top contributors: