Chael Sonnen Quotes

I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

Chael Sonnen

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• 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
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Practice
  • Sex
  • Safe

• 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
  • Practice
  • Thoughts
  • Memories

• The world is in motion, as it seems.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • World
  • Seems
  • Motion

• The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Mind
  • Practice
  • Questions

• Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Music
  • Lost

• Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Quality

• When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Day

• The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Poetry
  • Magic
  • Seems

• In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

  

  Sallust
  • Life
  • Practice
  • My Own

• Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Women
  • Practice
  • Empowerment

• Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

  

  Walter Koenig
  • Freedom
  • Religious
  • Practice

• A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another occasion indulge its own will.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Practice
  • Popular

• These dangers inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have to-day produced their full harvest of human waste, of inequality and inefficiency, were fully recognized in the last century at the moment when such ideas were first put into practice.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Practice

• Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • God
  • Political
  • Religious

• The selections on 'Daily Practice' are all what I consider standard rock songs that have been absolutely essential to keeping me alive.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Rock
  • Practice
  • Daily

• I used to practice Wicca.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Practice

• There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today.

  

  Pete du Pont
  • Different
  • Today

• Look, this is an odd question, but you're kind of cute and you're pretty nice to me. Are you drunk? It's OK if you are.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Question

• There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Quite
  • Organ
  • Uterus

• Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Music
  • Way
  • Break

• Finally I found something on the list, something vital: instant coffee. I held the red plastic container, one of the last three on the shelf, held it like the marvel that it was: the seeds inside the purple fruits of coffee plants had been harvested on Andean slopes and roasted and ground and soaked and then dehydrated at a factory in Medellin and vacuum-sealed and flown to JFK and then driven upstate in bulk to Pearl River for repackaging and then transported by truck to the store where I now stood reading the label. It was as if the social relations that produced the object in my hand began to glow within it as they were threatened, stirred inside their packaging, lending it a certain aura--the majesty and murderous stupidity of that organization of time and space and fuel and labor becoming visible in the commodity itself now that planes were grounded and the highways were starting to close.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Coffee
  • Labor
  • Truck

• I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Practice
  • Seems