Practicing Quotes

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

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

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.

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.

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough.

I still wonder if somebody -- somewhere -- was practicing more than me.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

A young girl was asked: Whose preaching brought you to Christ? It wasn't anybody's preaching; it was Aunt Mary's practicing, he replied. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

It is 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.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification;

I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

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

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue.

He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions.

Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

I've been practicing for a while now and physically trying to get in better shape as well after the injuries.

When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.

I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.

I give up on spending time on these courts;

I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

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.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

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.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough.

I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

Margaret: Can I - can I just say something for the future? Leo: Yeah.

Margaret: I can sign the President's name. I have his signature down pretty good. Leo: You can sign the President's name? Margaret: Yeah. Leo: On a document removing him from power and handing it to someone else? Margaret: Yeah! Or... do you think the White House Counsel would say that was a bad idea? Leo: I think the White House Counsel would say it was a coup d'etat! Margaret: Well. I'd probably end up doing some time for that. Leo: I would think. And what the hell were you doing practicing the President's signature? Margaret: It was just for fun.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning.

The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

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

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

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

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

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.

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.

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.