Practice Quotes

• Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Moral

• When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Different
  • Why
  • Bad

• I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to - ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. 'Peak Practice' became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had.

  

  Joe Dempsie
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• You have to practice until you die.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Die
  • Practice

• Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Pretty
  • Practice
  • Design

• So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Life
  • Business
  • Practice

• Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Practice
  • Same
  • NASA

• How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Christian
  • Thank God

• Knowledge of facts is important. Knowledge of truth is essential. Yet our Lord's concern goes beyond mere head knowledge. He wants us not only to know the truth but also to obey the truth. He wants us to live the truth, practice the truth, and be conformed to and transformed by that truth.

  

  Wayne Mack
  • Important
  • Concern
  • Essentials

• You address the respect issue in a team-meeting environment. With respect to its application, it's not just locker room. It's practice field. It's on and off the field. It's on Sunday, and it's on game days.

  

  Jeff Fisher
  • Game
  • Team
  • Respect

• There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep.

  

  Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • May
  • Soul
  • Practice

• By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Freedom
  • Journey
  • Yoga

• I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Daily

• I'm from Texas and actually went to a regular high school, but every day after school I'd run to dance class and practice a lot and then go back the next day and stuff like that.

  

  Jenna Dewan
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• I can do a backflip on the spot. I learned how from watching 'Ninja Turtles' movies as a kid. Whenever the Turtles got in trouble with their teacher, Master Splinter, he'd make them practice backflips as punishment - and I was so focused on becoming one of the Turtles that I taught myself how to do one, too.

  

  Jason Mitchell
  • Practice
  • Teacher

• If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • People
  • Power
  • Faith

• Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.

  

  Marty Meehan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Practice

• It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • Time
  • Job
  • Respect

• When you're a kid and practice on clay, you're always, 'Oh, I wish I could win Roland Garros.'

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Wish
  • Practice

• You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Work
  • Star
  • Talent

• 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 Haig
  • Life
  • Ideals
  • Affirmation

• It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

  

  Matthew Henry
  • Good
  • May
  • Practice

• We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the 'capacity' to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the 'ability.'

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • God
  • May
  • Unique

1

...

19

20

21

22

23

...

84

previous

next