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 ~
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
~By John Adams ~
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 ~
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
~By Casey Stengel ~
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
~By Rebecca West ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
~By William Bernbach ~
Practice makes permanent.
~By Bobby Robson ~
I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.
~By Jill Scott ~
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
~By Pete Rose ~
They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
~By James Stockdale ~
For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.
~By Don Hutson ~
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 ~
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
~By Anton Seidl ~
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 ~
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
~By James Boswell ~
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 ~
I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.
~By Geddy Lee ~
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 ~
The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.
~By Joshua Leonard ~
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 ~
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
~By William James ~
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
~By Nora Roberts ~
I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do.
~By Bill Bruford ~
In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
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 ~
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 ~
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
~By Terry Waite ~
There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!
~By Jimmy Smits ~
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 ~
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 ~
You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
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 ~
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
~By Arsene Wenger ~
I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
~By Walter Wager ~
I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
~By Wally Schirra ~
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.
~By George Combe ~
It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
~By Geddy Lee ~
I take my son to school and then I drive 45 minutes to practice with my ABA team, the Florida Pit Bulls, from 10 to 1. In the afternoon, I have meetings.
~By Tim Hardaway ~
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 ~
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
~By Elia Kazan ~
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 ~
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
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 ~
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
~By Anita Desai ~
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 ~
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 ~
Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
~By Martha Graham ~
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 ~
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 still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.
~By Neil Diamond ~
We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.
~By Willie Stargell ~
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
Because I practice often with my children at home.
~By Andrea Bocelli ~
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 ~
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
~By Confucius ~
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 ~
You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.
~By Charlie Parker ~
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
~By Nhat Hanh ~
My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.
~By Jimmy Smith ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.
~By Jonathan Kellerman ~
My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
~By Charles Lamb ~
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
~By Marty Meehan ~
You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.
~By Leslie Nielsen ~
Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.
~By Ernest Holmes ~
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
~By Pierre Bourdieu ~
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.
~By Maurice Strong ~
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
~By Meg Greenfield ~
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
~By David Ben Gurion ~
Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
~By Tallulah Bankhead ~
Learn by practice.
~By Martha Graham ~
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 ~
I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.
~By Frederik Pohl ~
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 ~
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
~By Will Harvey ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
~By Christy Turlington ~
Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
~By Matthew Henry ~
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 ~
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 ~
The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
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