Quotes about practice
practice sometimes duty
In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out. Samuel Butler
practice trying nasa
Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same. Sally Ride
practice justice politics
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice. W. H. Auden
practice separation theory
Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.
practice play
When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice. Tyson Chandler
practice perfect practice-makes-perfect
Perfect practice makes perfect. Twyla Tharp
practice theory-of-evolution agriculture
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature. Trofim Lysenko
practice ideas order
A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice. Wilhelm Keitel
practice principles constitution
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. Thomas Hardy
practice community research
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge. Thomas Kuhn
practice generosity benevolence
Generosity is only benevolence in practice. Thomas Ken
practice stories way
The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality. Thomas Keating
practice lifetime
To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.
practice editors principles
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles. Victoria Woodhull
practice judging free-love
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
practice important elements
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. Gretchen Rubin
practice polygamy
It was a very limited practice; carefully safeguarded. In 1890, that practice was discontinued. Gordon B. Hinckley
practice attractive conversation
No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.
practice firsts citizens
O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward. Horace
practice trying imagine
It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it. Herb Kelleher
practice people personality
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.
practice feet simplicity
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
practice wish transcendentalism
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.
practice use flavor
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.
practice listening training
I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice. Jill Scott
practice track consistency
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. Jeremy Bentham
practice paying-taxes debt
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt. Jennifer Dunn
practice civilized-nations moral
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. Jerrold Nadler
practice race giving
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need. Jesse Owens
practice looks massachusetts
Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison's Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander. Jeffrey Toobin
practice skills world
Those who have power a) understand that the world is not always a just and fair place and accept that fact, b) understand the bases and strategies for acquiring power, and c) take actions consistent with their knowledge in a skillful way. Skill at anything requires practice, and power skills are no different. Jeffrey Pfeffer
practice guy missing
I don't skip practice, I'm not late for meetings, I'm professional in everything I do, you never hear about me not showing up for planes and missing flights, so why is it that I'm always being labeled a bad guy? Jeff Cunningham
practice core-values core
Change your practices without abandoning your core values. James C. Collins