Practice Quotes

• I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Children
  • May
  • Rejoice

• In principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Practice
  • Consistency

• Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

  

  Anton Seidl
  • Men
  • Art
  • America

• If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Writing
  • Passion
  • Fingers

• In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Food

• 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

• While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Practice

• How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Christian
  • Thank God

• Caste is a state of mind. It is a disease of mind. The teachings of the Hindu religion are the root cause of this disease. We practice casteism and we observe Untouchability because we are enjoined to do so by the Hindu religion. A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Sweet
  • Teaching

• I used to be very revenge-motivated, but that's just because I'm a Scorpio. Now I'm more so, like, practice honesty just because it makes you feel better.

  

  SZA
  • Honesty
  • Motivated
  • Revenge

• 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

• Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Advice
  • Eight

• Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

  

  Christopher Dodd
  • Decision
  • Practice

• For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Enemy

• 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

• Yoga is an internal practice. The rest is just a circus.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Rest
  • Yoga
  • Circus

• Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Thinking
  • Practice

• I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the time and you've got to get good at it. It's more than just having one and playing it.

  

  Jake Pitts Black Veil Brides
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Guitarist

• You can only get so far from an evaluation standpoint in practice, and you know, at some point, you've got to go play and kind of take that next step in the evaluation of just where you are and then grow and make adjustments as you go throughout the year.

  

  Dabo Swinney
  • Practice

• I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.

  

  Bill Bruford Yes
  • Home
  • Practice

• I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it.

  

  Lawrence Timmons
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Practice

• It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Faith
  • Action
  • Jesus

• Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

  

  David Horowitz
  • Practice
  • Winning

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