Practice Quotes
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The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.
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[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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I think that's what it's all about; you work hard and practice to play on the big courts.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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The men who rule have practiced keepin’ their tongues still, not exercisin’ them.
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I don't think I underestimated [Vladimir Putin], but I think that I underestimated the degree to which, in this new information age, it is possible for misinformation for cyber hacking and so forth to have an impact on our open societies, our open systems, to insinuate themselves into our democratic practices in ways that I think are accelerating.
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In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.
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What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.
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A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.
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I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.
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I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
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My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
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Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.
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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.
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For the off-ice training, I do basic strength training, and for the on-ice training, I practice jumps, spins, steps, and my new long program with my new coach Peter Oppegard.
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Early practice is vital so that performances became totally ingrained and flow from the subconscious.
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A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.
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We ran a lap in practice that I screwed up on but will still ran a decent lap.
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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.
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From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.
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The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
