Practice Quotations | Page 4

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there.

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

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

It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.

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

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Practice, work out, proper nutrition, lots of work on my short game. In golf, that's really where the strokes come off the scorecard.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

To be efficient with the football in practice and on the game field obviously is the most important thing, but be efficient with the football, make smart decisions, be great on third downs, be great in the red zone, when the game's on the line in the fourth quarter - that's what I love.

All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremely successful when all the other teams were practicing in pads.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.

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

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

I can cook a little bit but pretty much when I get back from practice I am pretty tired that I just order out.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

If you seriously aspire to be a manager in the big leagues, there is a baseball 'book' that one must learn. Alongside that book, you must practice Spanish. Of 25 players on each roster, sometimes there are between eight and 15 players who speak Spanish.

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.

The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to just shut it down after nine months of working at a high level in comics. We'll see.

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of terrorism with proof of guilt. One constantly hears U.S. government defenders referring to 'terrorists' when what they actually mean is: those accused by the government of terrorism.

I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager, and practice is very important.

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.

Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

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

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

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.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.

All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities.

The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn't even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn't have an audience.