Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emmet Fox

To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.

James Anthony Froude

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

Jacque Fresco

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

Henry Adams

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

Henry Giroux

Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it, eliminate tenure, and define the working conditions of faculty to something resembling the labor practices of Walmart workers.

Henry Bessemer

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henepola Gunaratana

The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.

Heber J. Grant

The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which the members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained

Heather Mitts

Hair is really where we can be creative. I have my "game hair," which is always different than how I'd wear it at practice.

Pablo Casals

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Plato

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

Plautus

Practice yourself what you preach.

Philip Larkin

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Martin Seligman

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

Leonardo da Vinci

Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

LeBron James

Every practice, every film session, every game will help our chemistry.

Lauryn Hill

I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

Lauryn Hill

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

Laura Marling

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.

John Travolta

Tom Cruise has-we all have-the right to practice how we feel...don't judge someone until they have tossed your salad.

John Surtees

Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.

John Stuart Mill

There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, and set the example of more enlightened conduct, and better taste and sense in human life.

John Stuart Mill

Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people must be gradually trained to it in small. Now the whole course of advancing civilization is a series of such training.

James Fenton

At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.

Leslie Stephen

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

Leslie Mann

I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to that drunk thing, not that I've ever done that myself. I've had a lot of practice. Let's be honest.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

Luc de Clapiers

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

Shawn Ryan

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What? Had a dry spell of killing people lately? (Susan) As a matter of fact, yes. If it doesn’t end soon, I might get out of practice. (Otto)