Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rogers Hornsby

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

Samuel Johnson

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

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.

Richard Gere

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

Richard Gere

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

Rich Sommer

I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

Rob Bell

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.

Richard Rohr

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

Richard Dawkins

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

[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

Steve Vai

All musicians practice ear training constantly, whether or not they are cognizant of it. If, when listening to a piece of music, a musician is envisioning how to play it or is trying to play along, that musician is using his or her 'ear' - the understanding and recognition of musical elements - for guidance.

Vince Spadea

The Argentineans practice on the court for two hours a day, then they must practice in front of a mirror for two more hour saying 'I'm not guilty.'

Vince Lombardi

If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.

Samuel Johnson

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

Samuel Johnson

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

Ronald Reagan

An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

Robert Jarvik

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

Rocco DiSpirito

I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.

Warren Buffett

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

Warren Buffett

I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.

Vladimir Kramnik

Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.

Vladimir Lenin

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Wayne Dyer

When you make the decision to become a being of sharing, and practice keeping your thoughts harmonized with Spirit energy on a daily basis, your purpose will not only find you, it will chase after you wherever you go.

Wayne Dyer

I am patient and loving with my fearful thoughts. Be patient and loving with every fearful thought. Practice observing your fears as a witness, and you'll see them dissolve.

Wayne Dyer

Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

Wayne Dyer

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

Samuel Butler

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Sally Ride

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

W. H. Auden

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

W. H. Auden

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

Tyson Chandler

When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.

Twyla Tharp

Perfect practice makes perfect.

Trofim Lysenko

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.