Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
~By Jeff Hawkins ~
Practice is the best of all instructors.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.
~By Tom Barrett ~
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
~By Jose Marti ~
I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.
~By James Beard ~
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.
~By George Murphy ~
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
~By David Ben Gurion ~
When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.
~By Sue Wicks ~
It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney.
~By Christopher Darden ~
I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect.
~By Lacey Chabert ~
We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.
~By Kofi Annan ~
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
~By Brian Tracy ~
Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great.
~By Peter Forsberg ~
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
~By Pierre Charron ~
I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.
~By Ricky Williams ~
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
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.
~By Al Kaline ~
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
~By Richard Bach ~
In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
~By Laura Miller ~
I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
~By Alain Prost ~
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
Being a full time coach doesn't mean that we practice more than other teams. In fact we have strict regulations about the length of our practices and playing season. The academic schedule here means that I rarely have a full team at any one practice!
~By Tony Brown ~
Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Why do you not practice what you preach.
~By St. Jerome ~
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
~By Charles Kettering ~
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
~By Joseph Wambaugh ~
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
~By Bill Bowerman ~
The real problem today is the ineffective and inconsistent oversight of professional boxing, which has led to continuing scandals, controversies, unethical practices, and unnecessary injuries and deaths in the sport.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
~By Victoria Beckham ~
When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
~By Bob Woodward ~
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
~By E. M. Forster ~
I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down.
~By Ben Quayle ~
I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.
~By Michael Schenker ~
Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
~By Barney Frank ~
One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.
~By Mel Gibson ~
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
~By Martha Graham ~
I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
~By Kathy Acker ~
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
~By Maxwell Anderson ~
Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
~By Hank Aaron ~
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
~By Yogi Berra ~
Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.
~By Jim Costa ~
I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
~By Garry Shandling ~
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.
~By Michelle Trachtenberg ~
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.
~By Richard Gere ~
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
~By John W. Gardner ~
Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
~By Elihu Root ~
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
~By Wayne Gretzky ~
I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.
~By Elton John ~
My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.
~By Payne Stewart ~
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
~By Gifford Pinchot ~
Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.
~By Annie Smith Peck ~
I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.
~By Ronald Biggs ~
If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.
~By Jascha Heifetz ~
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
~By George Orwell ~
Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
~By Rick Allen ~
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
~By Eric Lindros ~
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
~By James Allen ~
The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.
~By Edward Sapir ~
The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.
~By Jung Chang ~
We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
~By Amy Tan ~
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
~By Conor Oberst ~
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
~By Meg Greenfield ~
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
Practice puts brains in your muscles.
~By Sam Snead ~
On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.
~By Johnnie Cochran ~
I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
~By Thomas More ~
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
~By Ansel Adams ~
But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.
~By Piper Perabo ~
Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.
~By Piers Anthony ~
While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.
~By Shannon Miller ~
States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
~By George W. Bush ~
On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
~By Oliver Herford ~
It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
~By Bobby Darin ~
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
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