Practice Quotes

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.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

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.

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

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.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

The more I practice the luckier I get.

Nothing I do can't be done by a 10-year-old with 15 years of practice.

I wanted to win, even in practice.

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

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.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

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.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.

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.