Practice Quotes

• A print of the painting, The Prayer At Valley Forge, depicting George Washington on bended knee, praying in the hard snow at Valley Forge, hangs over the desk in my office. If the practice of witchcraft, such as is allowed now at Fort Hood, is permitted to stand, one wonders what paintings will grace the walls of future generations.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Future
  • Prayer
  • Painting

• Acting takes a lot of practice, but so does auditioning.

  

  Vincent Rodriguez III
  • Practice
  • Acting
  • Auditioning

• Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

  

  Alfred Kazin
  • Education
  • Practice

• I don't work out a lead section and practice it for a day and then lay it down. I don't do that. The first time I do something I think is expressive or really cool, that's what's actually on the recording.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Time
  • Work
  • Cool

• Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

  

  Elliot Richardson
  • Work
  • Important
  • Question

• There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.

  

  Dara Torres
  • Thinking
  • Practice
  • Goal

• Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Light
  • Practice
  • Inner Beauty

• People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • May
  • Doubt
  • Destiny

• But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Play
  • Practice
  • Pads

• God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Up
  • God
  • Christian

• Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

  

  Jerry Rice
  • Work
  • Practice

• What you practice, is what you’ll do.

  

  Benny Urquidez
  • Practice

• By practice and experience a man can (if the wind be of the right strength) imitate the complete sailing flight of birds by availing himself of the slight upward trend of some winds, by performing circling sweeps, and by allowing the air to carry him.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Experience
  • Air
  • Wind

• In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the Bread of Life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Life
  • God
  • Age

• Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.'

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Practice
  • Exercise

• The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Society
  • Practice
  • Vain

• I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

  

  Caroline Paul
  • Up
  • Good
  • Lifting

• Love is a simple practice yet it is very beneficial for the individual who practices it as well as for the community in which he lives, for the nation, and for the whole world

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Love
  • Community

• When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • School
  • Learning
  • Practice

• When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Yoga
  • Self

• The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Practice

• The guys on the Interstate Batteries Chevrolet did a good job today. We just worked on race setup in the first practice, and then we worked n qualifying setup in the second practice, so I am pretty happy with our efforts.

  

  Bobby Labonte
  • Happy
  • Race
  • Good Job

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