Quotes about practice
practice long stories
The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . . Swami Vivekananda
practice trying way
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music. Roscoe Mitchell
practice people sound
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness. Rollo May
practice vision seeing
Seeing is a gift that comes with practice. Stephanie Mills
practice spirituality dramatic
My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.
practice people good-man
The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable. Sophie Swetchine
practice punishment violence
I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice. Stanley Kubrick
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 magic young
Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic. Woody Allen
practice retiring
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. Will Harvey
practice democratic-ideals america
The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values. Whitney M. Young
practice giving honor
There are many who say to the Lord, "I give myself wholly to Thee, without any reserve," but there are few who embrace the practice of this abandonment, which consists in receiving with a certain indifference every sort of event, as it happens in conformity with Divine Providence, as well afflictions as consolations, contempt and reproaches as honor and glory. Saint Francis de Sales
practice odds would-be
If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your finding it would be so great that the task would be indistinguishable, in practice, from impossible. Richard Dawkins
practice medicine alternatives
[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.
practice way belief
It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary. Robert Neelly Bellah
practice trials pleasure
You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience. Robert E. Lee
practice people billions
Billions of people don't practice a religion at all. Richard Gere
practice essentials
I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.
practice acting fatherhood
I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private! Rich Sommer
practice militant knows
I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know. Rob Bell
practice criticism
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. Richard Rohr
practice faults born
A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence. Rogers Hornsby
practice superstitions conviction
Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God. Samuel Johnson
practice causes reason
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.
practice birth-control moral
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals. Walter Lippmann
practice anxiety simplicity
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.
practice faces kind
It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind. William Randolph Hearst
practice liberty theory
Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice. William Lloyd Garrison
practice two tasks
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?
practice development fields
Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development. Wilhelm Reich
practice falsehood
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. Walter Savage Landor