Practice Quotes
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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE
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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
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I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.
Dave Van Ronk
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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
Edwidge Danticat
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One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Few things are more shocking to those who practice the arts of success than the frank description of those arts.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.
Chogyam Trungpa
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The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
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Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?
Confucius
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As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
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The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen
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Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.
Bahya ibn Paquda
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
Norm MacDonald
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
Tom Stoppard
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The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
John Stuart Mill
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My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"
Faith Hunter
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Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.
Paul Weyrich
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The selections on 'Daily Practice' are all what I consider standard rock songs that have been absolutely essential to keeping me alive.
Alice Ripley
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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
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Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of Buddha dharma, Buddhist spirituality, in one's life.
Lobsang Tenzin
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The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted. "Well honestly... 'the fates have informed her'... Who sets the exam? She does!
Joanne Rowling
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Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.
Jaimoe