Practice Quotes - page 11

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men." (Diogenes Laërtius)
Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice. View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused." View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is” and "ought” first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the recognition of this state of Being - its theory - intends from the beginning a concrete practice. Seen in the light of a truth which appears in them falsified or denied, the given facts themselves appear false and negative. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be re-inforced through out our neigbourhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply your self, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for-self by your self, and then you can do things for other people. But that's what I had to do, I had to do for-self. View quote
Tupac Shakur
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. View quote
Jim Rohn
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice. View quote
Thomas Szasz
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. View quote
Matthew Henry
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we make it our duty to practice them, that, if we are suddenly called upon to perform some action of a different order, it takes us by surprise, and without our supposing for a moment that it might involve the bringing of those very same virtues into play. (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. View quote
Carroll Quigley
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. View quote
David Horowitz
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear. View quote
John Selden
A male has the right to wander about as he pleases. He has the right to marry any number of girls. This practice has led to prostitution. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Many senior policemen put greater emphasis on maintaining 'order' than on upholding the law. In practice that meant failing to uphold the rights of individuals against the rule of the mob. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
...talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. (Sydney J. Harris)
The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling. View quote
Max Stirner
One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice. View quote
Walter Scott
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. View quote
Winston Churchill