Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Diamond

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

Janet Yellen

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices and staffing.

Ken Whisenhunt

From what I've talked with him when we've been on the practice field, yes. He's seen some things. He's talked about some things. From that standpoint, he's been good.

Kim Clijsters

I don't think I've even practiced in these conditions. It was so tough out there today.

I have never done that in 27 years of practice with any patient.

I did it in the first practice, I don't have to do it again.

Carmelo Anthony

I can't even remember. To me, it's just going to be like practice. . . . I don't even look at it as trying out.

I don't get real vocal in a meet, but in practice I can get vocal.

Carl von Clausewitz

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Calvin Coolidge

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

Calvin Coolidge

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

Cesar Millan

In life... we need to find a balance. You have to set rules and limitations - that is called discipline. And you have to practice that in all your worlds.

Carson Palmer

I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.

Alain de Botton

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Alain de Botton

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

Alain de Botton

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Al Franken

The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry, which led to many consumers becoming trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.

Charles Jennings

Some learning and talent professionals, together with some organisations, are finding it a challenge to make changes from these age-old HR and learning practices. However, it is inevitable that they will need to adopt new ways of learning to support new ways of working sooner rather than later.

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.

Edmund Hillary

With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.

Edmund Burke

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

Elihu Root

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Edward Sapir

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

Edward R. Murrow

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

Edward Said

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

Albert Camus

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Daniel J. Boorstin

While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

David Mamet

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

Don King

From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

Douglas Booth

If you don't practice for three days, everyone will notice." It's something you have to really maintain. So unfortunately, I don't play it that often but I may take it up again. If you don't play for a while, you just can't hit the notes. It's like going to the gym. If you go and do weights, you can lift x amount of weight and if you don't go for ages, you've gotta start again and start from the beginning. So it's a bit like that. It's just a muscle.