Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Martin

I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.

Stephen Harper

The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.

Shahzia Sikander

I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

Shahzia Sikander

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

Shakti Gawain

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

Shakti Gawain

The best way I have found to follow my true desires is to pay attention to my intuitive sense. We all have great wisdom within us, a part of us that knows exactly what we need at every moment. We are born with this intuitive sense, but most of us are quickly taught to distrust and ignore it. We have to relearn something that should come naturally. Fortunately, it's not too difficult; it just takes some practice.

Sun Myung Moon

True Love comes into being when you practice the highest possible love in the lowest possible place. There you deal with impossible people and try to raise them into the highest possible people by showing them the highest possible standard. There is where True Love can be found and can start.

Sue Gardner

Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.

Richard Stallman

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

Samuel Alexander

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

Tariq Ramadan

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

T. Harv Eker

Practice being in the present. Do what you're doing 100%.

T. Harv Eker

From now on, I want you to practice reframing other people's negativity as a reminder of how not to be.

T. Harv Eker

We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

Suze Orman

Remember to remember your power - everything you've learned with these steps to financial freedom - and put it all into practice everyday, because in the grand scheme of life, you'll never really know how things are meant to turn out until they turn out.

Scott Adams

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

Joseph Joubert

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

Kofi Annan

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

Ramakrishna

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Ramakrishna

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

Les Brown

Practice only makes for improvement.

Les Brown

Here's other quotes and sayings you can motivate yourself with. Practice only makes for improvement.

Thomas Aquinas

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

Terry Waite

The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

Terry Tempest Williams

This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore.

Tom Reilly

There was nothing in the deal with Justice that would change Microsoft's business practices in any way.

Simon Mainwaring

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.

Richard Blumenthal

We give this practice two thumbs down!

Tim Henman

I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape.

St. Jerome

Why do you not practice what you preach.

St. Jerome

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

Roger Nash Baldwin

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

Thomas Merton

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.