Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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 Jenner

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.

Dean Acheson

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

David Hilbert

The tool which serves as intermediary between theory and practice, between thought and observation, is mathematics; it is mathematics which builds the linking bridges and gives the ever more reliable forms.

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.'

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Benjamin Franklin

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Benjamin Franklin

Practice makes perfect.

Benjamin Franklin

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought.

Avicenna

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

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.

Demarcus Ware

Sometimes in the heat of the battle you just got to calm down and use what you do in practice to avoid the penalties.

Demetri Martin

I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'

Daniel Goleman

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

Dana Perino

If you have a crippling fear of public speaking, recognize that that is perfectly normal. And know that the only way to get over those nerves is to fully understand the material, the points, the policy you are trying to explain - and then practice it a little bit.