Practice Quotes

• Geraldine: I've no idea who my father was.Prentice: I'd better be frank, Miss Barclay. I can't employ you if you're in any way miraculous. It would be contrary to established practice. You did have a father?Geraldine: Oh, I'm sure I did. My mother was frugal in her habits, but she'd never economize unwisely.

  

  Joe Orton
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't have much estimation of my abilities as a director, but I found I loved class and loved process and loved practice. And so I've put together classes of actors - oh my God - since I was 21 years old, I think.

  

  Jeff Perry
  • God
  • Together
  • Practice

• 'You’re a wicked man.''Thank you. It’s taken years of diligent practice.'

  

  Iain Banks
  • Taken
  • Practice

• 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
  • People
  • Practice

• Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Words
  • Practice

• Here's a very simple, common sense idea - if you practice something more, you get better at it; if you can't complete everything you need to do, take more time.

  

  Chris Gabrieli
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Practice

• Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

  

  Pierre Bourdieu
  • Practice
  • Logic

• I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.

  

  Alan King
  • Practice

• You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• 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
  • Different
  • Past
  • Broken

• I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Long
  • Attention

• The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfill-to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it and an expression of my feelings on assuming a charge so responsible and vast.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Trust
  • Practice

• We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Nature
  • Practice
  • Authenticity

• When any practice is proposed and enforced as a binding duty, we have a right to examine the grounds of the alleged obligation.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Practice

• However intimate we may be with the operations of the mind, we cannot think more than two or three minutes a day; - unless, by taste or by profession, we practice, for hours on end, brutalizing words in order to extract ideas from them...The intellectual represents the major disgrace, the culminating failure of Homo sapiens.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Mind
  • May
  • Words

• 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

• I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

  

  Alain Prost
  • Work
  • Beginning
  • Weekend

• I practice every day and that kind of stuff to maintain my musicianship.

  

  Brad M. Carlson Cheap Trick
  • Practice

• Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

  

  Confucius
  • Practice
  • Virtues
  • License

• 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

• 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

• As a veterinarian and lover of animals, I feel the time is now to stop the practice of horse soring for good.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Good
  • Stop

• In terms of the espionage, this is something I have talked to President Obama about. We don't want it to mar the relationship between Mexico and the United States. But it is unacceptable for a country to practice such espionage, especially if there is a good relationship with the other country.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Good
  • Country
  • Relationship

• The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Hope
  • Respect
  • Lies

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