Practice Quotes - Page 6

• Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.

  Adam Gopnik

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beauty, Appreciation, Miracle

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• Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Believe, Chess, Study

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• Never tell a lie-except for practice.

  Mark Twain

  Lying

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.237, Courier Corporation

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• As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.

  Helen Caldicott

  Mother, Technology, Doctors

  Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam

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• The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fashion, Money, Men

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• Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Children, Sweat, Soldier

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• Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

  John W. Gardner

  Freedom, Creativity, Doubt

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• To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

  Jessica Hische

  Creativity, Artist, Player

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• The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really difficult. It gives us a certain amount of inner peace, which allows us some self-control, so that we can choose to respond to situations in an appropriate and compassionate manner, rather than being driven by our disturbing emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Patience, Buddhist

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• 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.

  Meredith Monk

  Art, Two, Different

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• Nature without exercise is a seed shut up in a pod, and art without practice is nothing.

  Pietro Aretino

  Art, Nature, Exercise

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making sense of their illusions and delusions. What then would the truth have to be, such that such human beings are FIT TO KNOW IT at all, even provisionally or tentatively?

  Kenny Smith

  Fitness, Truth, Long

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• It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's time for us to look at the practices of corporations and holding them accountable for violations of law which often go unnoticed because there is very little regulation.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Rights, Law, Looks

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• When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Positive, Thinking, Dwelling

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• He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Cat, Doors, Risk

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• The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.

  Alexander Kotov

  Attitude, Learning, Self

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• Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Reading, Religion

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• Men have the grand vision, and they pass it on to somebody else to put into practice. Women follow the details more, they want to know that it is being put into practice.

  Eugenia Charles

  Encouraging, Men, Vision

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• Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind Architecture for Humanity since our founding.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Opportunity, Optimism, Humanity

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• The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design.

  John McAslan

  Thinking, Design, Enough Time

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• Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.

  Witold Rybczynski

  Art, Architecture, Theory

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• Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Spring, Byu

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• Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

  A. B. Simpson

  Opportunity, Heaven, Trying

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• Gratitude is usually generated in one of two ways. One, by feeling a genuine appreciation for the life that you were given and, two, by making a conscious decision to practice looking at what's right in your life rather than focusing on what's missing.

  Alex Green

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Two

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