Quotes about practice
practice doubt creeds
Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice. Hosea Ballou
practice storm earth
If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth. The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms. Hannah Arendt
practice each-day four
I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to. Guy Forget
practice heterosexuality-is people
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
practice people literature
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.
practice conservative individual
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. Harold Rosenberg
practice personality philosopher
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. Jacques Derrida
practice perfect matter
No matter how much more I practice, my English will never be perfect. If it is really terrible, I'll correct it, but otherwise, I do it my Jackie Chan way. Jackie Chan
practice astrology way
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative. Isaac Bashevis Singer
practice done charity
Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good. Immanuel Kant
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 development framework
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. Gro Harlem Brundtland
practice rooms strategy
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time. Grover Norquist
practice walking-sticks vines
I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things. Gifford Pinchot
practice two world
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace
practice pay-the-price progress
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day
practice sophistry facts
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible. Harriet Ann Jacobs
practice silence grace
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise. Harriet Beecher Stowe
practice imagination greed
Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better. Gregory Maguire
practice two one-day
If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it. Ignacy Jan Paderewski
practice green time-and-money
Lack of time and money create really bad green practices. Ian Somerhalder
practice listening promise
Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it. Howard Gordon
practice would-be pulpit
Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well. Horace Greeley
practice age way
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age. Homer
practice undertaken
I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself. Rick Boucher
practice snaps
I can't take snaps because I'd probably get killed. In practice, I can't really do that much. They don't give us the room. Pat McAfee
practice week
It was a long week (of practice). We were embarrassed, but now that's gone. We're 1-0 in the MAC, and that's all that matters.
practice america hypocrisy
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. Frederick Douglass
practice alive staying-alive
Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can. Frank Sinatra
practice yield justice
A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another occasion indulge its own will. Felix Frankfurter
practice mind affirmation
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest. Fay Weldon