Practice Quotes
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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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I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.
James Beard
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People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Bodhidharma
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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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When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.
Tyson Chandler
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I know from my experience as a swimmer that you put in the work and practice, and come game day, your body is ready, and you just have to trust your training.
Victoria Arlen
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Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
Eric Gill
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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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'You’re a wicked man.''Thank you. It’s taken years of diligent practice.'
Iain Banks
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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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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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Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
Epictetus
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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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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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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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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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Practice and practice and practice, and you'll make friends all over the world.
Lionel Ferbos
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My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.
Kenneth Chenault
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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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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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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
Edward Tufte
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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
David Horowitz
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As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of there being masterpieces of improvised music through benchmark recordings.
David Grubbs
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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