Practice Quotes

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.

I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

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.

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.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they would show me a lot of stuff, which was really advanced stuff to me at my age.

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you've had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you're pretty polished.

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

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.

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.