Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

John Quincy Adams

[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.

Norman Foster

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

Norm MacDonald

Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.

Norm MacDonald

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

Norm MacDonald

There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.

Mario Batali

There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.

Mason Cooley

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

Mason Cooley

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

Mason Cooley

I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.

Mary Antin

A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.

Michael Gerber

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

Melody Beattie

Today I will practice healthy giving, understanding that caretaking and compulsive giving don't work. I choose what I want to give, to whom, when, and how much. It takes time to learn how to give in healthy ways. It takes time to learn to receive. Balance will come.

Melody Beattie

It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Michelangelo Antonioni

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

Socrates

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Let him go, Julian. His entire body isn’t worth one molecule of yours. (Grace) (To Paul) Where I come from, we butchered worthless cowards like you just for practice. (Julian)

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)

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

Mark Twain

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.