Practice Quotes

• A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Method

• You cannot be afraid to present yourself. And sometimes that takes practice. If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable, you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Practice
  • Public Speaking
  • Present yourself

• In America, we have anti-nepotism laws in the federal government and in lots of state governments, because the practice of hiring relatives undermines public confidence that the government official is actually finding best person for the job.

  

  Kathleen Clark
  • America
  • Government
  • Person

• Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Single
  • Philosophy
  • Motivational

• Practice makes perfect, and we've been getting a lot of practice. We're not perfect yet, though.

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Perfect
  • Practice

• I will not attempt to say this better than Buddha, who said, "The practice of making others happy is based upon the clear understanding of life which is Oneness. In deep gratitude, let us realize this Oneness of all life, the heart of which is Compassion.

  

  Brian McDonald
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Buddha

• It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion...

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Practice
  • Criticism
  • Investor

• Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

  

  Aaron John Baddeley
  • Trust
  • Practice

• I went through the same process when I sort of addressed in my practice cancer next, when I began all the veganism and the fasting and the purifications. Part of that was just gratitude, expressing gratitude, thank you, thank you.

  

  Brad Willis
  • Cancer
  • Process
  • Gratitude

• I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.

  

  Confucius
  • Chance
  • Loves
  • Wickedness

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

  

  Joe Namath
  • Practice

• Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.

  

  Dave LaPoint
  • Team
  • Practice
  • Batting

• Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.

  

  Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Every time I get the chance, I just talk to myself basically in English just to practice my pronunciation.

  

  Rich Brian
  • Myself
  • Practice
  • Chance

• To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

  

  Elspeth Huxley
  • Artist
  • Social Life
  • Illusionist

• People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you're doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • People
  • Believe
  • Perfect

• It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Practice
  • Perfection
  • Powers Of The Mind

• Schedule in rest in any pursuit. There’s always another peak, but look back and admire the view for a moment. You have to actually practice that - it’s a balance.

  

  Christy Haubegger
  • Rest
  • Moment
  • Admire

• I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Believe
  • Moral
  • Humorous

• Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in religion they neglect these inner values. But love and compassion are qualities that human beings require just to live together.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Live
  • Together

• What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.

  

  Al Kaline
  • Practice

• A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.

  

  Ed Macauley
  • Practice
  • Mountain
  • Hills

• You have to practice the life you want regardless of what the circumstances are.

  

  Susan Kelechi Watson
  • Life
  • Circumstances
  • Regardless

• Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

  

  Epictetus
  • Heaven
  • Practice

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