Practice Quotes

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

There is nothing like practice.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

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.

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.

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?

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.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.