Quotes about practice
practice mind method
A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind. Norman Vincent Peale
practice risk psychology
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. Emile M. Cioran
practice listening needs
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening. Epictetus
practice ifs habitual
Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.
practice trying ordinary
Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity. Emily Carr
practice community religion
A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. Emile Durkheim
practice design firsts
If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard. Edward Tufte
practice drawing perception
As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required to pass from a nervous sensation to the conception of an external object, which the sensation has aroused. The sensations of our nerves of sense are mere symbols indicating certain external objects, and it is usually only after considerable practice that we acquire the power of drawing correct conclusions from our sensations respecting the corresponding objects. Hermann von Helmholtz
practice moral influence
It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority. Henry Steele Commager
practice generosity novel
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity. Henry James
practice dating people
Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people. Henry Cloud
practice effort missing
Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike. Helen Clark
practice natural-gifts achieve
What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve. Johann Sebastian Bach
practice perfect nobodys-perfect
Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice? Kurt Cobain
practice law theory
Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice. Napoleon Bonaparte
practice vices virtue
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
practice law mind
The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
practice doors facts
The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices. Orrin Hatch
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 community humanity
No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women. Manmohan Singh