Practice Quotes

As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

The practice of "reviewing"... in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism.

All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.

Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.

If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.

When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

I'm paid to preach not to practice.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn your craft, get to know fellow writers, and meet editors and agents.

Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account

Please, sit down," Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks.

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.

Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves.

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?

Make sure you put quality into every practice swing.