It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
W. H. Auden

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.
David Guterson

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
Travis Barker

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Will Harvey

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Paul Harvey

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.
Kim Dae Jung

So the first thing that I thought about was, 'How is this car going to handle?' But then after I'd been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back.
Sean William Scott

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
Satish Kumar

Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
Nancy Kerrigan

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.
Jeffery Deaver

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
Ibrahim Babangida

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Ted Nugent

There really is something raw about sexuality that's real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But - we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex.
Kyan Douglas

There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.
Bill Scott

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.
Mary Barnett Gilson

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
Martha Graham

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
Leon Kass

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?
Edward Bennett Williams

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow.
Emil Zatopek