Practice Quotes

• Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Success
  • Practice
  • British Constitution

• 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

• It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Practice
  • Exercise

• The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found preferable. The case is similar with regard to the understanding, which is more relieved by change of study than by total inactivity.

  

  William Benton Clulow
  • Different
  • Understanding
  • Found

• Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • Work
  • Practice
  • Professional

• I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.

  

  Joe Namath
  • Practice

• Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

  

  Melanie Laurent
  • Time
  • American
  • Practice

• The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human – human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Religious
  • Practice

• If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Audience
  • Critics
  • One Day

• Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• 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

• It's been strong and I haven't had any so-called setbacks or real soreness in the last few workouts. If I can get through today's practice with the team, I'd like to play tomorrow night against the Isles, but that would be up to coach Mike Sullivan. But I think the training staff is pushing for tomorrow to be my return date.

  

  Brian Leetch
  • Team
  • Coach Mike Sullivan
  • Training staff

• I am going to begin now a practice of not making recommendations on specific tax and spending proposals.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Tax
  • Recommendations
  • Proposals

• We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • Freedom
  • Understanding
  • Practice

• Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Girl
  • Games
  • Athlete

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

  

  Joey Dunlop
  • Practice

• That's right," said Luna encouragingly, as if they were back in the Room of Requirement and this was simply spell practice for the D.A. "That's right, Harry... come on, think of something happy..." "Something happy?" he said, his voice cracked. "We're all still here," she whispered, "We're still fighting. Come on, now.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Happy

• The speed you have, you can't practice it. You have to be fast from your birth on. There are other things you can practice, like flexibility or the little steps needed to stand good to the ball, but to be fast is a gift you get.

  

  Dominic Thiem
  • Good
  • Practice

• There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.

  

  James Fenton
  • Real
  • Practice

• Here in Argentina, it is easy to practice and play because we have the horses, the land, the players - everything.

  

  Adolfo Cambiaso
  • Practice

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

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Practice

• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Believe
  • Long
  • True

• Morocco has a lot to do in terms of democracy. The daily practice of democracy evolves in time. Trying to apply a Western democratic system to a country of the Maghreb, the Middle East, or the Gulf would be a mistake. We are not Germany, Sweden or Spain.

  

  Mohammed VI of Morocco
  • Country
  • Democracy
  • Mistake

• We are clear that all lives matter, but we live in a world where that's not actually happening in practice. So if we want to get to the place where all lives matter, then we have to make sure that black lives matter, too.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • World
  • Live
  • Black

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