Practice Quotes - Page 40

• We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.

  Graca Machel

  Girl, Community, Respectful

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• The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Children, Judgement

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I: "The Education of the Architect", Section 1,

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• I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

  Dick Cavett

  Ideas, Chocolate, Dubious

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• The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles:
  Show up or choose to be present,
  Pay attention to what has heart and meaning,
  Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and
  Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.

  Angeles Arrien

  Heart, Simple, Principles

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• Practice random acts of . . . Grumpiness.

  Grumpy Cat

  Grumpiness

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• When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.

  Kim Gordon

  Art, Space, Hands

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• Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to keep learning because world keeps changing and competitors keep learning. You have to go to bed wiser than you got up. As you try to master what you are trying to do – people who do that almost never fail utterly. Very few have ever failed with that approach. You may rise slowly, but you are sure to rise.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Afternoon Session - 2010 Meeting". buffett.cnbc.com. May 1, 2010.

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• Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man-by choice; he has to hold his life as a value-by choice; he has to learn to sustain it-by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues-by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

  John Galt

  Suicidal, Animal, Men

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• Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.

  Lee Lozowick

  Matter, Discouraged, Enthusiastic

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• A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.

  Bela Karolyi

  Building Up, Vaults, Mental Strength

  "Gymnastics Vault Needs 'Speed, Explosive Action'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. July 31, 2012.

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• We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Giving Up, Mistake, Responsibility

  Calvin Coolidge (1972). “Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972”

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• My son is in a band, and he’s a singer, and his vocals … they’re screaming-growling stuff … and he’s got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I’m, like, “Hats off to you.”

  Bruce Dickinson

  Son, Voice, Band

  "Iron Maiden’s secret to success". Interview with Ben Wener, www.ocregister.com. May 29, 2008.

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• I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

  Nader al-Masri

  Track, Stadiums, Gaza

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• I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure.

  Neelie Kroes

  Looks, Prevention, Cures

  "Britons face £3bn jump in gas bills" by Mark Milner, Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

  Joan Halifax

  War, Buddhism, Rights

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• If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Two, One Day, Three

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• Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.

  Charlton Laird

  Divorce, Two, Way

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• Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.

  Shelley E. Taylor

  Exercise, Two, Example

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• At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

  James R. Thompson

  Texas, Skills, Want

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• Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gun, Men, Differences

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Sackett”, p.40, Bantam

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• We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Home, Abortion, Foundation

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• Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Running, Inspiration, Meditation

  Kathleen McDonald (2011). “How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

  Bodhidharma

  Attachment, Essence, Goal

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

  Bodhidharma

  Wisdom, Two, Path

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Information does not change behavior. Practices do.

  Richard Leider

  Healing, Doe, Information

  Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Richard Leider (2007). “The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader”, p.11, Blue Snake Books

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