Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our practice tempo was probably a little different than what we've seen.

B. F. Skinner

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

B. F. Skinner

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

Bill Crawford

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

Bill Bryson

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Bernard Arnault

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

I think there's more of a sense of urgency. We saw it in practice on Tuesday.

Bill Bruford

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

I think she's going to practice. I think we're going to try and see what happens.

It doesn't feel like 5-11. Every day in practice we're still coaching, and they're still learning. Sometimes you don't have that with a 5-11 record.

It don't get no better than that, ... We practice that - we have takeaway drills in practice, and that's the same the drill, 'scoop-and-score.'

It didn't surprise me to be honest. I've seen him shoot that same shot in practice.

It hasn't sunk in yet. It will when I don't have to go to practice.

Andrew Brown

I thought it would be a lot tougher. Once they showed us the right way to do it, it wasn't too hard. I still need some practice though.

I don't get real vocal in a meet, but in practice I can get vocal.

He couldn't practice all week, and it showed.

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

I did it in the first practice, I don't have to do it again.

Carmelo Anthony

I can't even remember. To me, it's just going to be like practice. . . . I don't even look at it as trying out.

Ken Whisenhunt

From what I've talked with him when we've been on the practice field, yes. He's seen some things. He's talked about some things. From that standpoint, he's been good.

I think in principle it can be built. In practice maybe.

I have never done that in 27 years of practice with any patient.

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

He's been telling me to make sure that if you practice at 11 o'clock and (Karl) wants you to be there at 10, you show up at 8:45,

Kim Clijsters

I don't think I've even practiced in these conditions. It was so tough out there today.

I wish I could say it was practice and coaching.

LaMarcus Aldridge

I work on that in practice all the time. But I usually don't have to use it much.

Kevin Cosgrove

He was a little sluggish to start out with. It showed that he hadn't practiced for awhile.

Randy Carlyle

He had been scoring a lot in practice and we talked to him about it three weeks ago. He delivered.