Practice Quotes

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

~ Michael Graves

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

~ Anthony Holden

Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

~ Noah Feldman

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

~ Helen Rowland

All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

~ Frank Ocean

There's not a lot of time to have conversations on the field during the game. That's where the trust and the practice comes into play, through practice, through off-site throwing sessions; that's where you build that trust and build that cohesion with a wide receiver.

~ Brock Osweiler

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

~ Dōgen

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

~ Richard P. Feynman

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

~ Arnold J. Toynbee

I'm a big fan of imagination. I think it's the strongest tool we have, and there are some things that you just can't practice.

~ Rupert Friend

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

~ James Cash Penney

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.

~ Andrew Ross Sorkin

I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

~ Pamela Anderson

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

~ Tom Coburn

The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.

~ Haile Selassie

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

~ Herbie Hancock

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.

~ Gifford Pinchot

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

~ Plato

I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

~ Bear Bryant

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.

~ Edward Hirsch

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

~ James Broughton

I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.

~ Malcolm X

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

~ Brett Hoebel

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

~ Sam Snead

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

~ William Osler

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

~ David Frum

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

~ George Orwell

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

~ David Horowitz

If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.

~ Katha Pollitt

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

~ Elliot Richardson

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

I loved going to the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial in Taipei to watch all the old Chinese people doing tai chi and practicing kung fu. The monument was made of white marble, and it was beautiful. Sometimes my dad and I would practice with them.

~ Jimmy Chin

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

~ Billie Joe Armstrong

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

~ Tre Cool

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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.

~ Lewis Thomas