Practice Quotes

• Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

  

  Plato
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Metaphor... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Mother
  • Practice

• My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

  

  James Lafferty
  • People
  • Work
  • Stop

• When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Peace
  • Practice
  • Moment

• Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Rest
  • Yoga
  • Circus

• I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • God
  • I Believe
  • Victories

• When we're coming up to the race, the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I always have the same lunch. So that's before the second practice, before qualifying and before the race, I always have a tuna vegetable risotto. The chef makes it slightly spicy, so there's a bit of a kick.

  

  Valtteri Bottas
  • Up
  • Race
  • Sunday

• Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Age
  • Future
  • Fear

• There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Words

• I practice yoga even when my schedule doesn't allow me to teach. I've been practicing for 17 years, since before it became hip.

  

  Brenda Strong
  • Practice
  • Yoga

• Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

  

  George Pierce Baker
  • Past
  • Present
  • Judging

• Despite the firewall, Chinese companies continue to advertise themselves on Facebook and Google-my dentist in Shanghai puts his Gmail address in scrolling LEDs in front of his practice. To do business with the rest of the world, Chinese firms increasingly have to get good at using services that are both essential and (theoretically) unavailable.

  

  Clay Shirky
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training?

  

  Jose Rodriguez
  • Why
  • Practice
  • Training

• I practice a personal meditation and have a gala apple before each show.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Desire
  • Fire
  • Wind

• Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to learn how to tap,' I'd practice till I was blue in the face. I would do it because I'm so headstrong and think I can do anything. But just to show up and sing a little ditty, no.

  

  Leslie Bibb
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Blue

• In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Truth

• I just have to practice hard, get better, and go out there and win impressively - that's all it comes down to.

  

  Cain Velasquez
  • Practice
  • Winning
  • Get Better

• Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Practice
  • Songs
  • Productive

• At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

  

  David Ben-Gurion
  • Art
  • Practice

• I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Friend
  • End

• If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Money
  • Why
  • Law

• Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.

  

  Jade Jones
  • People
  • Practice
  • Psychology

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