Practice Quotes

• The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Play
  • Yoga
  • Drawing

• I think that's what it's all about; you work hard and practice to play on the big courts.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Work
  • Practice

• There is so much focus on being self-sufficient, and it makes it very difficult to ask for things. I've been crippled by this notion of high-functioning self-sufficiency. And I see it a lot in younger girls. Asking for help brings people closer in a way that I suspected but didn't actually put into practice.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • People
  • Help
  • High

• Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.

  

  Renee Fleming
  • Important
  • Opposites
  • Alternatives

• Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • May
  • Practice
  • Mood

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

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Success
  • Practice
  • British Constitution

• Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate and take hold. This way of understanding the dispersion of power helps us realize that power is not simply about certain individuals being targeted for death or exclusion by a ruler, but instead about the creation of norms that distribute vulnerability and security.

  

  Dean Spade
  • Power
  • Security
  • Vulnerability

• Practice excited thinking until you become excited and exciting.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Thinking
  • Practice
  • Excited

• Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Practice
  • Body
  • Research

• I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.

  

  Kevin Durant
  • Practice

• Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.

  

  Alois Podhajsky
  • Knowledge
  • Practice
  • Theory

• When you practice the stances of karate, be sure to keep your back straight, lower your shoulders, put strength in your legs, stand firmly, and drop your energy into your lower abdomen.

  

  Anko Itosu
  • Energy
  • Practice
  • Abdomen

• You can only fight the way you practice

  

  Miyamoto Musashi
  • Fighting
  • Practice
  • inspirational

• 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

• Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Practice
  • Effort

• Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Law
  • Woman
  • Attorney

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

  

  Joey Dunlop
  • Practice

• Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.

  

  Richard Masur
  • Riding
  • Subway
  • Spelling

• When I was 13, I told my dad I wanted to move to Florida to attend the IMG Academy. I wanted to be a golfer, and that's hard to do in New England where I could only practice half the year.

  

  Peter Uihlein
  • Dad
  • Practice

• Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

  

  Philip Larkin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Practice

• There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

  

  Confucius
  • Practice
  • Serve
  • Reciprocity

• We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.

  

  Ray Brown
  • Something
  • Musician
  • Rehearsals

• We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Practice
  • Conversation
  • Actions

• The reason so many of us lose our bearings about practising early in life is that we practice in living rooms with other family members in earshot - and healthy practice would simply sound too obnoxious, intrusive, repetitious and unmusical for others to hear without annoyance.

  

  William Westney
  • Reason
  • Healthy
  • Members

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