The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
~By John Berger ~
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
~By Tanith Lee ~
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
~By Mark Twain ~
I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
~By Woody Allen ~
Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.
~By Lincoln Chafee ~
We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.
~By David Axelrod ~
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
~By Marty Meehan ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.
~By Goran Ivanisevic ~
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
~By Nora Roberts ~
The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
~By Bill Bruford ~
We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.
~By Art Garfunkel ~
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
~By Charles Kettering ~
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 ~
I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
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 ~
Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.
~By Debbie Meyer ~
Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.
~By Jennifer Dunn ~
One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
~By Abe Lemons ~
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
~By George Whitefield ~
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
~By Hank Aaron ~
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
~By Paul Dudley White ~
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
~By Anthony Holden ~
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
~By Fay Weldon ~
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 ~
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 ~
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
~By George Washington ~
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
~By Major Taylor ~
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.
~By Gifford Pinchot ~
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 ~
Because I practice often with my children at home.
~By Andrea Bocelli ~
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
~By Roger Nash Baldwin ~
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
~By Philip Larkin ~
Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
~By Albert Pike ~
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.
~By Ken Starr ~
You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.
~By Julie Taymor ~
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 ~
I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.
~By Jane Elliot ~
The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
~By Dogen Zenji ~
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 ~
But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.
~By John Anderson ~
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
~By Willie Stargell ~
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 ~
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 ~
I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.
~By Mila Kunis ~
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
~By Yogi Berra ~
But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority.
~By Tony Brown ~
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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 ~
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
~By Merton Miller ~
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 ~
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
~By Pat Robertson ~
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.
~By William Falconer ~
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
~By Kary Mullis ~
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 ~
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
~By James Broughton ~
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 ~
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
~By Bill Watterson ~
Everything is practice.
~By Pele ~
Practice puts brains in your muscles.
~By Sam Snead ~
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
~By Katherine Dunham ~
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 ~
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 ~
I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
~By Garry Shandling ~
The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
~By Frederick Pollock ~
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 ~
As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.
~By Greg Walden ~
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 ~
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 ~
If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare.
~By John Podesta ~
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
~By Bill Bruford ~
Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
~By Roscoe Mitchell ~
Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
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 ~
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
~By Edith Stein ~
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 think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
~By Debbie Gibson ~
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
~By Bruce Lee ~
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 ~
However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
~By Bob Filner ~
So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
~By Ikue Mori ~
We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months.
~By DeForest Soaries ~
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 ~
Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.
~By George Halas ~
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
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