Quotes about practice
practice violin able
One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering. Marilyn vos Savant
practice worthwhile-things bored
The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age. Pablo Casals
practice plant
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants. Plato
practice practice-what-you-preach
Practice yourself what you preach. Plautus
practice ifs
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. Philip Larkin
practice despair causes
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... Martin Seligman
practice pilots ships
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. Leonardo da Vinci
practice games helping
Every practice, every film session, every game will help our chemistry. LeBron James
practice acting stage-actors
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 Seymour Hoffman
practice dull occupation
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other. Philip Sidney
practice work-out looks
Financial " synergy " is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice. Peter Drucker
practice class track
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. Megan McCafferty
practice important virtue
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other. Maya Angelou
practice broken promise
To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks. Mason Cooley
practice theory come-up
Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.
practice principles gullible
I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
practice use elements
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. Mary Antin
practice people vision
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. Michael Gerber
practice giving healthy
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
practice perspective looks
It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.
practice long liberty
I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. Michelangelo Antonioni
practice political use
Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action. Michel Foucault
practice soul aberration
Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.
practice use creation
The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.
practice matter kind
A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.
practice theory theory-of-knowledge
[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
practice people doctrine
the truths of Christianity are constant, unchanging, and meant for all people, times, and places. But the methods by which truth is articulated and practiced must be culturally appropriated, and therefore constantly translated ...if doctrine is constant and practice is constantly changing, the result is living orthodoxy. Mark Driscoll
practice honor church
One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him. Theodore L. Cuyler
practice doubt ongoing
While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice. Theodore Bikel
practice kind solemnity
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity. Theaster Gates
practice race individuality
Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race. Margaret Sanger
practice pounds limits
In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds. Kevin VanDam
practice problem treating
I haven't been able to practice as much as I would have wanted, but at least I know what the problem is and how to go about treating it, Tim Henman