Practice Quotes - Page 34

• Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false concreteness - a concreteness isolated from the conditions which constitute its reality. In this context, the operational treatment of the concept assumes a political function. The individual and his behavior are analyzed in a therapeutic sense - adjustment to his society. Thought and expression, theory and practice are to be brought in line with the facts of his existence without leaving room for the conceptual critique of these facts.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Reality, Expression, Political

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• I know of no better answer to the foul practices that confront our young people than the teachings of a mother, given in love with an unmistakable warning.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Mother, Teaching, People

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• ...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Political, Subsidies

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.64, Soft Skull Press

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• Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

  Anthony Giddens

  Light, Self, Acting

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• Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

  Anthony Giddens

  Risk, Concern, Settings

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.121, John Wiley & Sons

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• Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.

  Anthony Giddens

  Philosophical, Taken, Mean

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• Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public health sphere allows the state, as the owner of knowledge, to exert power of the bodies of its citizens. Risk discourse, therefore, especially when it emphasizes lifestyle risks, serves as an effective Foucauldian agent of surveillance and control that is difficult to challenge because of its manifest benevolent goal of maintaining standards of health. In doing so, it draws attention away from the structural causes of ill-health.

  Deborah Lupton

  Health Education, Ill Health, Goal

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• The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the regular and appropriate prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is said first, as the foundation of further desires.

  Tertullian

  Inspirational, Prayer, Desire

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• It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Self, Long

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• I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To know food only theoretically is to always remain hungry. You must eat to satisfy hunger. So he who seeks new doctrines continuously but does not put them into practice in his life is in continual spiritual starvation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Differences, Imagination

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• How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.

  Joseph Sobran

  Thinking, Reality, Government

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• The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Problem, Unfair, Trade

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• However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

  Bob Filner

  Children, Epidemics, Grandparent

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• Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Attitude, College

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• It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Religious, Decision, India

  "Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii Democrat, Poised To Be Elected First Hindu In Congress" by Omar Sacirbey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

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• I save the race for the race and I don't let it all out in practice.

  Tyson Gay

  Race

  "Tyson Gay" by Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

  Ben Horowitz

  Running, Decision, Brave

  "The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage". www.businessinsider.com. August 8, 2011.

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• I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

  Barry Hannah

  Boys, Endless, Miles

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• When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

  Bruce Hornsby

  Home, Age, Three

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• 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.

  Daniel Hannan

  Best Practices, Law, Citizens

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• There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Christian, Thinking, Views

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• I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.

  Frank Iero

  Mean, Player, Guy

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• I'm heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with 'Glee' and then practice with LXD till about midnight.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Creative, Glee, Midnight

  "Harry Shum Jr: I love that people see dancers as artists now". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

  Tayari Jones

  Writing, Honor, Schedules

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