Practice Quotes

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor

Good, Career, Living

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
Sting

Spiritual, Making, Realize

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck

Means, Says, Principle

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen

Nature, Find, Meditation

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

Alone, Become, Learn

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

Times, Sacrifices, Altar

Practice puts brains in your muscles.
Sam Snead

Brains, Muscles, Puts

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams

Good, Mind, Feeling

Why do you not practice what you preach.
St. Jerome

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

Life, Enjoy, Against

In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.
Vinoba Bhave

Life, Long, Nothing

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.
Morihei Ueshiba

Peace, Great, God

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

Work, Hard, Mean

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

God, Men, Another

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
Pete Rose

Good, Father, Taught

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
Bill Watterson

Writing, Purpose, Ideas

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Morihei Ueshiba

Heart, Human, Fire

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

Kids, Exercise, Asking

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
Alvin Lee

School, Guitar, Seriously

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
Bodhidharma

Nature, Time, Imagine

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti

Children, Enjoy, Find

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

Future, School, Perfect

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.
James Beard

Enough, Around, Might

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover

Good, Patience, Ideas

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Charles Simmons

Love, Men, True

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.
Jimmy Carter

Faith, Islam, Political

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
Andrea Dworkin

Marriage, Time, Taking

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Become, Moral, Takes

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

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.
Vivienne Westwood

Morning, Minutes, Yoga

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