Practice Quotes

• How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Get Away
  • Carnegie
  • Carnegie Hall

• The legislator of the Jews in a bolder spirit went to a further extreme and in the practice of his 'naked' philosophy, as they call it, ventured to speak of him who was possessed by love of the divine.

  

  Philo
  • Practice

• When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Bad
  • Practice

• If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

  

  Belva Lockwood
  • World
  • War
  • Law

• Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

  

  Edward Tufte
  • Beautiful
  • Practice
  • Design

• Wellness, I came to realize, will not happen by accident. It must be a daily practice, especially for those of us who are more susceptible to the oppressiveness of the world.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • World
  • Daily
  • Wellness

• Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Practice

• First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Inspired

• Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Knowledge
  • Religion
  • Definitions

• It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Life
  • Great
  • Feeling

• I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Practice

• Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

  

  Matt Hasselbeck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Squad

• It may be that the jury would incline to regard a practising lawyer as a man of probity whose word was prima facie worthy of belief. But the belief of lawyers in their own probity is not universally shared, and there are those who believe them to be capable of almost any chicanery or sharp practice.

  

  Lawyer
  • Believe
  • May
  • Lawyer

• We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Time
  • Power
  • Bad

• Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

  

  David Remnick
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Wish

• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  

  Mark Twain
  • God
  • School
  • Practice

• We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Practice

• Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Important
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Practice

• Movement practice gets all your creative juices flowing. It doesn't just release your body, but it opens up your heart and empties out your mind, as well.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I studied law, I got an alright degree, and then I was going to go and do something called an LPC, which is a Legal Practice Course, which qualifies you as a lawyer. But I didn't end up doing it, because I went to drama school instead.

  

  Adeel Akhtar
  • Up
  • School
  • Law

• The creation of crimes after the commission of the fact, or, in other words, the subjecting of men to punishment for things which, when they were done, were breaches of no law, and the practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Men
  • Done
  • Words

• Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well, that is, it would be useful, if on each anniversary we examined the progress made by our species in just knowledge and just practice.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • History
  • Knowledge

• I always say that practice gets you to the top most of the time.

  

  David Beckham
  • Time
  • Practice

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