The Practice Quotes

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.
- Kathy Acker

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
- Emma Anderson

Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it may have ordained that the fall of the wicked shall be the rise of the good.
To J. Correa de Serra, Monticello, Apr. 19, 1814
- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
- Plato

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
- Plato

The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish...between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.
- Marvin J Ashton

Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.
- Alaa Al Aswany

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.
- Jane Austen

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.
- George P Baker

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
- Kenneth Baker

A man who reads at all, reads just as he eats, sleeps, and takes exercise,
because he likes it; and that is probably the best reason that can
be given for the practice.
- A C Benson

I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.
- Lara Flynn Boyle

As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.
- Jerry Bridges

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Dalai Lama

Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.
- Dan Brown

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.
- Bill Bryson

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
- Warren E Burger

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
- Voltaire

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.
- Alastair Campbell

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
- Benjamin Franklin

My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?
- Emanuel Celler

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.
- Michel De Certeau

The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.
- Michel De Certeau

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.
- Richard Cobden

I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this?
- Socrates

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
- Ezra Cornell

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
- Kurt Vonnegut

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
- Kurt Vonnegut

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.
- Frank Delaney

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

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
- Ursula K Le Guin

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.
- Henry James

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.
- Michael Emerson

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
- Martin Henry Fischer

Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.
- Ian Fleming

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.
- Norman Foster

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
- Barney Frank

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
- Paulo Freire

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

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
- Betty Grable

With me, something different and deep, in bright focus and pointing the way, arrived in the practice of hitchhiking. I am the spirit and the heart of hitchhiking, I am its cortex and its medulla, I am its foundation and its culmination, I am the jewel in its lotus.
- Tom Robbins

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
- Stanislav Grof

I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.
- Jennifer Lopez

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
- Nhat Hanh

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
- Tom Stoppard

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.
- Davey Havok

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
- Alexander Henry

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
- Auberon Herbert

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.
- Dorothy Parker

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
- Lauryn Hill

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.
- Bell Hooks

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.
- Kim Ilsung

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.
- Edward Jenner

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.
- Nancy Kerrigan

With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.
- John Maynard Keynes

The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change the nature nor the seriousness of the practice. This woe is pronounced upon those who would pervert standards of mortality and decency. They seek man's approval of that which God had condemned. They have been successful in getting legislation passed to make such perversion legal and acceptable by society.
- Spencer W Kimball

The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer

I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.
- Stanley Kunitz

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
- Charles Lamb

I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.
- Brother Lawrence

Half-way through the labour of an index to this book I recalled the practice of my ten years' study of history; and realized that I had never used the index of a book fit to read.
- T E Lawrence

The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw over and over that my mind and body could be filled with desire and that no matter how intense the craving was it would always pass. I didn't have to satisfy every desire that arose in my mind. I began to understand impermanence through direct experience rather than just intellectual theory.
- Noah Levine

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
- Eric Lindros

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.
- Leopoldo Lopez

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
- Lawrence G Lovasik

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.
- Trofim Lysenko

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson

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.
- Camryn Manheim

Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.
- William Martin

I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn't enough. It's the practice of honoring and caring for another that's noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part.
- Megan Mccafferty

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

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
- Marty Meehan

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
- Milarepa

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
- Agnes De Mille

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.
- George J Mitchell

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.
- Maria Monk

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.
- Marc Morial

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of their beliefs.
- Keith Obrien

Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
- Jesse Owens

The practice of peace, kindness and mercy are probably the most vital attributes of humanity! Timothy Pina
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- Timothy Pina

But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
- Marcus V Pollio

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
- Frederick Pollock

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!
- Susan Powter

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.
- Alain Prost

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
- Marcel Proust

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
- Carroll Quigley

When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses.
- Maggie Stiefvater

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training?
- Jose A Rodriguez Jr

Home ownership,and the vast consumption of materials and energy it requires, forces some pretty exploitative foreign policy manoeuvres. This makes people in those resource-rich places as mad as natives were at the practices of the colonial empires exploiting them two hundred years ago.
- Douglas Rushkoff

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
- Sallust

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love
ourselves and to more consistently love others.
- Sharon Salzberg

Sex is the theory; porn is the practice.
- Mark Simpson

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
- John Paul Stevens

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.
- Sharon Stone

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
- Anna Louise Strong

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
- William Graham Sumner

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
- Sheri S Tepper

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
- Bennie Thompson

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.
- Christy Turlington

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

My tongue is a scalding whiplash. I'm tired of hurting others with it, the way they have hurt me. I've always despised the practice, so once more I'll bite my words back, though the injustice served deserves each backlash of every one.
- Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The manager swiftly overtook him, sliding effortlessly past the skinny Englishman, with the practiced ease of someone used to slinking around ailing, despotic monarchs.
- Tom Vater

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
- Rebecca West

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
- Paul Dudley White

I prefer not to starve, to live by the practice of medicine, which combines the best features of both science and philosophy with that imponderable and enlightening element, disease, unknown in its normality to either. But, like Pasteur, when he was young, or anyone else who has something to do, I wish I had more money for my literary experiments.
William Carlos Williams, c. 1931
- William Carlos Williams

We learn to dwell with God by learning the practices of hospitality, listening, forgiveness, and reconciliationthe daily tasks of life with other people. Stability in Christ is always stability in community
- Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove

This is what the path of Dharma is like. It's not that you have to do all the practices. It is sufficient to take just one of them, whichever one you really have an affinity with, and through practicing that one alone, for the rest of your life, you will achieve enlightenment. Whichever practice you choose doesn't matter; they are all valid methods for achieving enlightenmentif you practice. The key is to practice with diligence for the rest of your life.
- Dhomang Yangthang