Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Sapir

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

Edward R. Murrow

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

Edward Said

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

Brian Ferneyhough

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Archibald MacLeish

Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Bruce Tognazzini

If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

Brian Tracy

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Brian Tracy

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

Brian Tracy

Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

Brian Johnson

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

Jan Karon

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

Calvin Coolidge

If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.

Bertrand Russell

There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.

Charlie Munger

Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.

Charles Hodge

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

Bob Ross

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

A minimum required standard to obtain a massage license is quite a different matter from a voluntary certification evidencing higher-level skills. Licensing standards should be set at a level sufficient to assure safe practice, but low enough to avoid screening out those individuals who choose to perform basic work

Bill Monroe

Practice every time you get a chance

Bob McDonnell

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

Bill Walsh

The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.

Bill Foster

Practice being excited.

Benny Goodman

People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

Bill Gates

There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.

Bill Gates

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

Demarcus Ware

Sometimes in the heat of the battle you just got to calm down and use what you do in practice to avoid the penalties.

Demetri Martin

I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'

Daniel Goleman

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

Dana Perino

If you have a crippling fear of public speaking, recognize that that is perfectly normal. And know that the only way to get over those nerves is to fully understand the material, the points, the policy you are trying to explain - and then practice it a little bit.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

Elia Kazan

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

B. C. Forbes

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.