Practice Quotes - Page 37

• Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

  Samuel Alexander

  Life Is, Ends, Practicals

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• Studied law, but not qualified to practice it.

  Frank Zappa

  Reality, Law, Qualified

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• I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

  George Jones

  Low Self Esteem

  Song: Wrong's What I Do Best

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• I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for religion, and the subject has always fascinated me, beyond almost all others (with a few exceptions, like evolution and paleontology).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Religious, Commitment, Science

  Stephen Jay Gould (1999). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think singing comes most naturally for me. Because it's part of your body - it's a natural thing. You can practice all you want but it's part of your body.

  Norah Jones

  Thinking, Singing, Body

  "Singer / Song-writer Norah Jones TalkAsia Interview Transcript". Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 14, 2004.

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• When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

  Shawn Johnson

  Home, Decision, Squat

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• There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

  Patty Berg

  Golf, Games, Ifs

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• Engagement is the conscious inhabitation of your body and mind. Practice is happening when your open awareness is moving with, in and through your embodied activity. Intrinsic to practice is your conscious participation with your life. Engagement is the conduction of your free and open awareness through your activities, whatever they may be.

  Robert McNamara

  Philosophy, Moving, Medicine

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• My child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.

  Carlos Barrios

  Beautiful, Art, Sex

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• If we want to cook food we need to leave the stove on continuously and not keep turning it on and off. If the heat is continuous, no matter whether it is high or low our food will eventually be cooked. Similarly, if we continuously apply effort, even if it is only a small effort, it is certain that we shall eventually experience the fruits of our practice.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Inspiring, Effort, Matter

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (1990). “Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment”, p.149, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media.

  David Barton

  Reading, Media, Everyday

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• I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Keys, Data, Knowing

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