Practice Quotes

• People must have the right to freely practice their religion. It is written in our founding documents and at the core of our values. If you look at my record, you'll see I safeguarded those values.

  

  Deborah K. Ross
  • People
  • Practice

• A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Practice
  • Preaches

• We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

  

  Ken Calvert
  • True
  • Marriage
  • Tolerance

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

  

  Mark Twain
  • God
  • School
  • Practice

• 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
  • History

• The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Believe
  • Practice
  • Deeds

• The research needed for social practice can best be characterized as research for social management or social engineering. It is a type of action research, a comparative research of the conditions and effects of various forms of social action, and research leading to social action. Research that produces nothing but books will not suffice.

  

  Kurt Lewin
  • Action
  • Management
  • Engineering

• 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

• The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Spiritual

• It was a good practice session, but then we started tailing-off, just as most players do during exhibition games and we started shooting more instead of executing.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • Games
  • Session

• Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.

  

  A. G. Mohan
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Deep

• Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Faith
  • Spiritual
  • Cancer

• If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Attention
  • Practice
  • Yoga

• I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

  

  Miguel
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Respect

• We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Practice

• Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions. The recommendation of a yoga practice follows the principle that through practice we can learn to stay present in every moment, and thereby achieve much that we were previously incapable of.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Present
  • Yoga
  • Get Better

• Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League's practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitter. This creates two players who do not have to do it all.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Why
  • American
  • Baseball

• 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

• 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

• The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.

  

  Ma Jaya
  • Stop
  • Simple
  • Helping

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

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Get Away
  • Carnegie
  • Carnegie Hall

• “Autonomy is absolutized in principle and practice. This may lead to the second response, namely, that physicians will accede to whatever the patient or valid surrogate wants. This prompts the physician to transfer all responsibility to patients, family, or friends. This occurs with alarming frequency in the care of infants, the elderly, and demented patients who may be over- or under-treated because their surrogates demand it. Indeed,”

  

  Edmund Pellegrino
  • Practice
  • Patient
  • Autonomy

• 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

• These dangers inherent in the very idea of humanitarianism and altruism, dangers which have to-day produced their full harvest of human waste, of inequality and inefficiency, were fully recognized in the last century at the moment when such ideas were first put into practice.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Practice

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