Practice Quotes

• The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Reading
  • Television
  • Millions

• We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.

  

  Atul Gawande
  • Time
  • Live
  • Taken

• Positive mental attitude is a practice, you gotta practice. I practice being still.

  

  Ab-Soul
  • Practice
  • Attitude
  • Still

• The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

  

  Whitney M. Young
  • America
  • Values
  • Foundation

• I keep telling myself I don't practice enough to be a perfectionist. And I don't practice enough to get mad. So my temper has subdued and my attitude is subdued.

  

  Beth Daniel
  • Practice
  • Attitude
  • Perfectionist

• I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

  

  Bella Thorne
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Practice

• In football, you're hitting, so you might as well hit in practice.

  

  Logan Mankins
  • Football
  • Practice

• We were brought here for a reason, and that's to be physical, run fast and get to the ball. We have some great guys who came in here and are going to help us out this year. As long as we continue to move forward, practice hard and work together, we'll be good.

  

  Bob Sanders
  • Work
  • Help
  • Running

• I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Up
  • May
  • Experience

• The practice of altruism is the authentic way to live as a human being, and it is not just for religious people. As human beings, our purpose is to live meaningful lives, to develop a warm heart. There is meaning in being everyone's friend. The real source of peace amongst our families, friends and neighbours is love and compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Dark
  • Practice

• Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

  

  Lincoln Steffens
  • Practice
  • Failure

• Practice each of the techniques of karate repeatedly. Learn the explanations of every technique well, and decide when and in what manner to apply them when needed. Enter, counter, withdraw is the rule for torite.

  

  Anko Itosu
  • Practice
  • Technique
  • Explanations

• Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.

  

  Ben Goldacre
  • Understanding
  • Practice

• From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

  

  Epictetus
  • Practice
  • Saying
  • Appears

• I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.

  

  Joey Dunlop
  • Practice

• In the 123rd minute of the semifinal game at the Olympics against Canada, I scored the game-winning goal that brought us to the finals. You can't replicate those do-or-die moments in practice or a friendly game.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Game
  • Die
  • Moments

• Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

  

  John Cusack
  • Life
  • Real
  • Practice

• To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Practice

• Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Remember
  • Poetry
  • Judges

• We spent a year trying to play one song, practising about four hours a week. Then we decided that if we really wanted to learn this song, we'd have to practice two days a week.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Song
  • Play
  • Learn

• The men who rule have practiced keepin’ their tongues still, not exercisin’ them.

  

  George W. Plunkitt
  • Practice
  • Rule
  • Tongues

• Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

  

  Edward Cocker
  • Question
  • Practice

• Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience. The main teachers of patience are our enemies.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Peace

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