Practice Quotes
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The real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain if you don't open your heart beyond the satisfaction of your personal emotional needs.
David Deida
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The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
John Ortberg
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The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.
Thomas Keating
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I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.
Peter Forsberg
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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
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When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.
Tyson Chandler
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My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.
Patti Smith
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As a U.S. Senator, I've tried my best to practice politics the way I think it's supposed to be practiced - always looking for common ground and truly enjoying the people I meet along the way.
Amy Klobuchar
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James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get in the ring for boxing scenes, and even during practice, the dude was full-on hitting me.
Tyrese Gibson
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A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)
Isaac Newton
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While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
Eric Gill
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Tradition is only a readymade. It’s for us to make a new gesture-to use it as a reference, more as a starting point than conclusion. Of course, there are very different attitudes and interpretations about our past and our memory of it. And ours is never a complete one, but is broken. In China, but also in my practice.
Ai Weiwei
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'You’re a wicked man.''Thank you. It’s taken years of diligent practice.'
Iain Banks
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I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.
Alan King
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Routine has nothing to do with repetition. To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.
Paulo Coelho
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I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer. It's a beautiful practice that enriches their daily lives.
Jay Parini
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Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.
Jerry Lee Lewis
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A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.
Confucius
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Practice and practice and practice, and you'll make friends all over the world.
Lionel Ferbos
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I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.
Nell Freudenberger
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The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
Edward Tufte