Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Thomas

Every year we've come to California, it's been raining. But we get all our practices in, and it's been fun.

Practice is a substitute for talent; however, there is no substitute for practice.

They need to stay focused. Every single time you're out there you could practice something.

This is a real inventor. This is somebody who really tried to put it into practice.

They'd worked us really hard. We got in here, had a practice and got right into things.

It's been seven years since I practiced it in public,

Gretchen Rubin

Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It was a very limited practice; carefully safeguarded. In 1890, that practice was discontinued.

Gordon B. Hinckley

No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.

Horace

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

Herb Kelleher

It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.

Herb Kelleher

People with different personalities, different approaches, different values succeed not because one set of values or priorities is superior but because their values and practices are genuine.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Henry David Thoreau

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

Henry David Thoreau

Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour him, partly for experiment's sake; but though it afforded me a momentary enjoyment, notwithstanding a musky flavor, I saw that the longest use would not make that a good practice, however it might seem to have your woodchucks ready dressed by the village butcher.

Jill Scott

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

Jeremy Bentham

[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Esther Hicks

Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those who don't agree with you, those who make your life feel uncomfortable, don't come into your experience, because your vibration-through your practice-has become so clear, so pure, so clean, so in keeping with what you want, that the world that revolves around you just feels like that. That's what you planned.

Esther Hicks

You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.

Esther Hicks

Savor more; fix less. Laugh more; cry less. Anticipate positively more; anticipate negatively less. Just practice that and watch what happens.

Ernest Hemingway

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

Ernest Hemingway

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

Ernest Hemingway

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

Erwin Chargaff

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

Erykah Badu

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

Ernest Holmes

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

Flannery O'Connor

Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding

Henry Mintzberg

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

Cate Blanchett

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

Gore Vidal

We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act.

Gore Vidal

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Harold Rosenberg

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

Jacques Derrida

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.