Practice Quotes - Page 29

• I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

  Robert Jarvik

  Careers, Medicine, Medical Science

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• As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Technology, Doctors

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• To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

  Eudora Welty

  Art, Discovery, Looks

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

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Ahead Of Time

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• I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

  Garth Brooks

  Thinking, Barns, May

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• Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Religion, Forgotten

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

  Kris Carr

  Spiritual, Cancer, Resilience

  "Celebrating a Decade Thriving With Cancer" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.

  Kabir

  Men, Self, World

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• Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, Mean, Equality

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.225, Hoover Press

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• Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

  Hosea Ballou

  Doubt, Creeds

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• There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

  Hosea Ballou

  Religious, Doctrine, Matter

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• Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

  Fred Couples

  Hard Work, Golf, Player

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• In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

  David Mamet

  World

  "Ultimate fighting: the final frontier" by David Mamet, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

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• The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Time, Cutting, Reality

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• To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Art, Criticism

  Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1973). “Extraordinary tales”, International Specialized Book Services

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• One cannot rest except after steady practice.

  George Ade

  Steady

  George Ade (1985). “The Best of George Ade”

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• You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

  Henry Mintzberg

  People, Way, Management

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• I was a workhorse; there was never a practice that I didn't enjoy.

  Joe Namath

  Enjoy

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• I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.

  Huston Smith

  Mean, Thinking, Dedication

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• The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.

  John Lahr

  Art, Drama, Magazines

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• Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

  Tim Daly

  Sister In Law, Medicine, Alternatives

  "Private Practice Preview: Great Expectations Scare Tim Daly". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.tvguide.com. September 23, 2007.

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• The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

  Anthony Burgess

  Ideas, Fiction, World

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Believe, Preparation

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• I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Pages, Fool

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• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Home, Guitar, Play

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