Practice Quotes

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

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.

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

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.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

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.

It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.

All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

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.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

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.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?