Practice Quotes
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Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.
Allan Bloom
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
James Broughton
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During the off-season, I try to increase my practice sessions, and I am also training with my coaches.
Lin Dan
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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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
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Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
Bob Ross
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But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.
Bernhard Langer
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So much success from set pieces comes from practice. Maybe fans see a well-worked free-kick and think it looks good, but to get that, there has been hours of work that nobody has seen on the training ground.
Diego Godin
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
Laura Dern
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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Simply: the practice makes the master. Practice every day, or at least try to sing, as much as you can. And I don´t stop, if I´m not on tour, I´m on a studio, and if I don´t, I do it for pleasure, I do it every day, is something that is part of my life.7
Luis Miguel
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They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.
Donald O'Connor
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I need to practice every day to be at my best for winning the third gold at the Rio Olympics.
Lin Dan
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It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.
George Trumbull Ladd
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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
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
Caitlyn Jenner
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If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.
T. Harv Eker
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Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet … You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.
Karen Armstrong
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I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect.
Lacey Chabert
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We are missing the gold if we do asanas as a physical practice only.
Geeta Iyengar
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
Victor Koo
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Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
P. J. O'Rourke