1,113 Quotes About Practice


  • Author Michael Pollan
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    Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

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  • Author Pythagoras
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    Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

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  • Author Reince Priebus
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    Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

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  • Author William Penn
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    Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.

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  • Author Anita Roddick
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    By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

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  • Author Ayn Rand
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    Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

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