Practice Quotes

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

Heywood Broun

The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works and its utility can be seen in the everyday use to which I have seen it increasingly being put by country after country, in policy, in practice and in law.

Carol Bellamy

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture

William Hazlitt

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity. In male culture, police are heroic and so are outlaws; males who enforce standards are heroic and so are those who violate them.

Andrea Dworkin

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Otto von Bismarck

Oh what a tangled web we weave,when first we practice to deceive!

Sir Walter Scott

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

Benjamin Franklin

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Southey

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Bodhidharma

The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

To practice kata is not to memorize an order. You must find the kata that work for you, understand them, digest them and stick with them for life.

Gichin Funakoshi

In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly appreciated till time has sobered the enthusiasm of its advocates.

Maud

It's not about having any particular experience. The practice is about opening to whatever presents itself

Joel Goldsmith

Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

Dalai Lama

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Kenneth Baker