John Stuart Mill Quotes
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.John Stuart Mill
Quotes to Explore
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Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W. H. Auden -
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
Barbara Kruger -
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
Manju Warrier -
The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
Nathan Sawaya -
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
Wendy E. Long
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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
Garry Shandling -
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
Samuel Alexander -
Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
Vikram Chatwal -
Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
Zendaya -
I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
Natalie du Toit
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I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
J. B. Smoove -
My dreams are all follies.
Taylor Caldwell -
It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
Rachel Griffiths -
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
Adam Hamilton -
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
Karl Jaspers
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'Titanic' made me want to tell stories... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams... It came at a very troubled period of my life.
Xavier Dolan -
The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
E. Stanley Jones -
Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.
Nadia Comaneci -
Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.
Jacques Barzun -
Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.
Plato -
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
John Stuart Mill