Practitioners Quotes

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The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in… — Anthony Bourdain
If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma… — Dalai Lama
Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances… — Marcel Proust
It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and… — Jacques Barzun
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.… — Carl Sagan
Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him. — William A. Dembski
Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion - a full-fledged alternative to… — Michael Ruse
The care of children ..is infinitely better left to the best trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it as a vocation...[This] would further… — Kate Millett
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists. — Alexander Kotov
What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do… — Milton Glaser
What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? â€“ A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder? — Georges Bataille
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any… — Zoltan Kodaly
There is only one social science and we are its practitioners — George Stigler
My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely… — Paul Tudor Jones
If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive… — Samuel Mockbee
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study. — David Pilbeam
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings… — Michel de Certeau

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