But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.
~By Buddy Rich ~
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
~By Auberon Herbert ~
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 ~
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
~By Alfred Kazin ~
If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.
~By Andre Agassi ~
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 ~
I try to practice with my life.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.
~By Nigel Mansell ~
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 ~
I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.
~By Malcom X ~
Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
~By Thomas More ~
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 ~
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
~By Albert Ellis ~
The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
~By Francis Wright ~
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
~By Ezra Pound ~
Because I practice often with my children at home.
~By Andrea Bocelli ~
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.
~By Jill Scott ~
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.
~By Edward Jenner ~
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
~By George P. Baker ~
Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?
~By Elliot Richardson ~
Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.
~By Jerry Lee Lewis ~
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
~By Jane Austen ~
If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.
~By Ivan Lendl ~
If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.
~By Dave Van Ronk ~
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
~By Charles Kettering ~
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
~By Jock Sturges ~
But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.
~By Thomas Keneally ~
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 ~
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
~By Robert Southey ~
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
~By Garth Brooks ~
You've got to build a career and a practice.
~By Robin Day ~
Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.
~By Raymond Floyd ~
You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
~By Roald Dahl ~
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
~By Pat Robertson ~
Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
~By Sally Ride ~
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 ~
The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
~By Geddy Lee ~
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
~By Albert Pike ~
The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.
~By Peter King ~
In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
~By Norah Jones ~
Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice but no way would I let him catch me.
~By Franco Harris ~
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 ~
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
~By Samuel Butler ~
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
~By James Otis ~
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~By Dalai Lama ~
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 ~
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
~By Georg Solti ~
My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.
~By Jimmy Smith ~
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
~By Michael Jordan ~
It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.
~By Jan Egeland ~
My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.
~By Donna Brazile ~
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
~By Hyman Rickover ~
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 ~
Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
~By Anna Louise Strong ~
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
~By Marcel Proust ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
~By James Cash Penney ~
We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.
~By Shigeru Yoshida ~
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
~By Alvin Lee ~
So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
~By Ikue Mori ~
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
~By Dan Marino ~
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.
~By Ray Brown ~
The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
~By Walter Wager ~
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
~By Matthew Henry ~
It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.
~By James Lafferty ~
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
~By Ivan Lendl ~
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
~By Charles Simmons ~
Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.
~By David Horowitz ~
You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.
~By Toots Thielemans ~
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
~By Tom Coburn ~
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.
~By John Hutton ~
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.
~By Donna Tartt ~
That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it.
~By Greg Norman ~
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 ~
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
~By Brian Tracy ~
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 ~
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
~By George Orwell ~
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