Famous Quotes & Sayings

bell hooks

When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo

bell hooks

None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.

bell hooks

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

bell hooks

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Artur Schnabel

Practice in tranquility.

Bobby Robson

Practice makes permanent.

Billy Corgan

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

Bodhidharma

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Bridgit Mendler

I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important.

It's a practice for me every day, sometimes every hour of every day. It is an absolute practice. When I went into the research, I really thought that there are authentic people and inauthentic people, period. What I found is, there people who practice authenticity and people who don't. The people who practice authenticity work their ass off at it.

I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day.

One of the things I talk a lot about in my work that I try to practice - which is really hard - is in those moments where we're being asked to do things or asked to take over or asked to take care of something, we have to have the courage to choose discomfort over resentment. And to me, a huge part of my authenticity practice has been choosing discomfort and saying no.

Bobby Darin

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

Antonin Scalia

There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

Bruce Lee

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

Bruce Lee

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Bronson Pinchot

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

Bobby Bowden

(We're going to) let them practice and see if one separates,

Brigham Young

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

Robert Jordan

We feel comfortable. What we practice is what we do.

Chris Bosh

We know what we have, we know what we do on the practice court, and we know what's in our hearts. We're really going to try hard.

David Hume

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

David Brooks

The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

Barry Commoner

Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

Denzel Washington

Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.

Denis Waitley

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

Dick Cavett

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

Dennis Chavez

So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?

Edward Snowden

We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.

Alexandra Paul

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

Baruch Spinoza

I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.

Augustus

Practice, the master of all things.

Ayn Rand

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.