Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

Nader al-Masri

I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

Mort Sahl

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

You won't get away with anything in practice if Tiffany's out there.

All we do is practice, eat, sleep, practice, eat, sleep.

Paulo Freire

The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures.

Paulo Freire

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

Philip Sidney

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

Peter Drucker

Financial " synergy " is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

Megan McCafferty

This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything -- a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness -- only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted.

Matthew Henry

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Maya Angelou

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

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

No we're not going to practice at 5:30 a.m.. We're going to be disciplined but I've had enough of that. I've got to get some sleep.

Tyrone Willingham

There's always going to be that. He hasn't even practiced with the (first or second units). Hopefully, he'll regain it quickly.

As we play more and practice more together, we're getting to know each other more all the time. Every day we get better.

A big part of spring practice was to get a look at those guys.

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

I tried to get out a lot more this summer and practice more this year.

I trained the whole off-season, ... I work out in Seattle with the Huskies. You can do everything you can off the field, but you can't prepare for practice and games. It's going to take me some time.

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

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

Jamie Dixon

This is the first time he's really been able to practice in two years.

Sallust

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

Russell Simmons

You have to learn to laugh all the time. It's a practice of life. It's a practice of happiness.

Russell Simmons

Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.

Ronald Reagan

I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have.

Sam Keen

We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

Sam Keen

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

Saadi

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.