Practice Quotes - Page 36

• Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, Long, People

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• The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Women, Mean, Imagination

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• We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.

  Robert Cormier

  Writing, School, Unique

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• Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.

  Julian Baggini

  Prayer, Believe, Responsibility

  "You don't have to be religious to pray ... but it helps" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2012.

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• True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.

  Julian Baggini

  Loyalty, Cards, Benefits

  "Goodies behaving badly" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2010.

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• I recurred on Grey’s Anatomy for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on Rescue Me. And I’d recurred for nine episodes on The Practice. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.

  Kate Burton

  Stars, Character, Years

  "Emmys 2012: Six Shows in One Season? Kate Burton, Daughter Of Sir Richard, Did It (Q&A)". Interview with Tim Appelo, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.

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• In legal practice, in the representation of clients, I have always felt deeply engaged, serene, and not all inclined to stand aside. I have always done whatever needed to be done, and have usually gotten my way.

  Louis Begley

  Done, Way, Clients

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• There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

  Andrew Bird

  Comforting, Rooms, Sheets

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• It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

  Bo Bice

  Stars, Trying, Wake Up

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• The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Development, Framework, Protect

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• I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Law, Casts, Shows

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• Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to learn how to tap,' I'd practice till I was blue in the face. I would do it because I'm so headstrong and think I can do anything. But just to show up and sing a little ditty, no.

  Leslie Bibb

  Thinking, Blue, Musical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Running, Race, Moments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

  Beverly Cleary

  Reading, Book, Writing

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• You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

  Amy Alcott

  Golf, Average, Play

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• You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more.

  Anne Archer

  Writing, Musician, Groups

  "Anne Archer and Michelle Danner Come Together For A New Play". Interview with Jamie Painter Young, www.backstage.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Fall, Best Practices, Organization

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• When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.

  Tyson Chandler

  Play

  "Serby’s Sunday Q&A with … Tyson Chandler". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. December 18, 2011.

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• So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?

  Dennis Chavez

  President, Employment, Bills

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• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  Gary Carter

  Kids, Desire, Uniforms

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• Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

  Caio Fonseca

  Morning, Piano, Painting

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• France does not practice revenge.

  Francois Fillon

  Revenge, Doe, France

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• But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.

  John Anderson

  Design, Environmental, Economic

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• It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

  Rosanna Arquette

  Mother, Art, Want

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• I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Religion, May, Should

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