Practiced Quotes
374 quotes by 327 authors
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I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very…
— Frederik Pohl
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Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but…
— Pope Innocent I
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A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the…
— Avicii
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A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,
— Clayton Christensen
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If everyone practiced yoga, pharmacies would have to close.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the…
— James Boswell
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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied…
— Samuel Johnson
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and…
— Helen Rowland
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Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of…
— William Safire
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I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the…
— Huston Smith
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As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial…
— Booboo Stewart
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I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from…
— Pete Postlethwaite
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Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the…
— Maurice Saatchi
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You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era…
— Julie Taymor
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