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Practice Quotes by Lewis Mumford
- Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
- The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and…
- Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that…
More Practice Quotes
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
- In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops. — Giorgio Armani
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great… — Teresa of Avila
- A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt