Practice Quotes

• No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

  

  James McGreevey
  • Faith
  • Practice
  • Catholic

• Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

  

  Emil Zatopek
  • Why
  • Running
  • Practice

• Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Habit
  • Performances
  • Mastery

• 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
  • College
  • Religious
  • Practice

• There is nothing like practice.

  

  Alan Hovhaness
  • Practice

• 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

• 'The Practice' I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long.

  

  Kelli Williams
  • Great
  • Long
  • Law

• We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Time
  • Live
  • Law

• The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Style

• The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that they demonstrate they can evacuate an aircraft within 90 seconds, but of course, a lot of stuff that is easy to do in training turns out to be tough in practice.

  

  Philip Greenspun
  • People
  • Real
  • Challenge

• Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner.

  

  Brad Sherman
  • Parents
  • Law
  • Health care

• It is very unnatural to dance while playing the violin. I had to practice so hard to learn how to do it, but now it is part of my expression, and it comes naturally. I have to know a song perfectly before I can even begin to move.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Song
  • Practice
  • Dance

• They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Experience
  • Practice
  • Physicians

• It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Practice
  • Integrity
  • Profess

• Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.

  

  Yamada Koun
  • Thoughts
  • Brave
  • Enlightenment

• Michael Jordan did not get good at basketball by practicing 42 minutes a week, which is what most kids have in the computer lab. … Whether it's a scalpel, baseball bat or a computer, the skill in the use of a tool rests upon practice and familiarity, and that's what these kids are going to have to an unprecedented extent.

  

  Angus King
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Baseball

• I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • Job
  • Practice

• There is no way I could have played fourteen years in the NFL if I didn't work my butt off on the practice field perfecting my technique or spend hours upon hours in the film room studying defenses.

  

  Donald Driver
  • Work
  • Practice

• My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"

  

  Faith Hunter
  • God
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.

  

  Ali Abdullah Saleh
  • Country
  • May
  • Responsibility

• It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

  

  Jim McKelvey
  • Time
  • Challenge
  • Bored

• Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Simple
  • Present
  • Listening

• Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.

  

  Bo Bice
  • People
  • Work
  • Practice

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