Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

I think there's more of a sense of urgency. We saw it in practice on Tuesday.

I think in principle it can be built. In practice maybe.

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

I run all day in practice, so I'm used to it,

Kim Clijsters

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

Bill Crawford

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

Bill Bryson

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Bernard Arnault

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Bill Bruford

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

Ken Duke

I wasn't really tired on Monday, but Tuesday and Wednesday got me. I didn't play a practice round.

I wasn't really nervous. It's something you practice all the time. You think about the situation as a kid.

merchandising practices at the wholesale and retail levels.

It hasn't sunk in yet. It will when I don't have to go to practice.

Andrew Brown

I thought it would be a lot tougher. Once they showed us the right way to do it, it wasn't too hard. I still need some practice though.

B. F. Skinner

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

B. F. Skinner

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

I think she's going to practice. I think we're going to try and see what happens.

It doesn't feel like 5-11. Every day in practice we're still coaching, and they're still learning. Sometimes you don't have that with a 5-11 record.

Well, we don't know yet. I would term him day to day. He didn't practice (Monday) and we'll see if he can go (Tuesday).

We wanted to have a place where our practices were together.

It don't get no better than that, ... We practice that - we have takeaway drills in practice, and that's the same the drill, 'scoop-and-score.'

It didn't surprise me to be honest. I've seen him shoot that same shot in practice.

Alfred Kazin

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

Aldous Huxley

Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.

Alexander Haig

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

Alexander Hamilton

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

Alexander Hamilton

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

Alexander Hamilton

The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

Adam Carolla

A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

Claude Bernard

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.