1,113 Quotes About Practice

Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Intellectuals ... advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. ... It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

I thought it would be a lot tougher. Once they showed us the right way to do it, it wasn't too hard. I still need some practice though.

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

(We're going to) let them practice and see if one separates,