1,113 Quotes About Practice

  • Author Stephen Covey
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    Habit 7 is taking the time to sharpen the saw. By renewing the four dimensions of your nature - physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional, you can work more quickly and effortlessly. To do this, we must be proactive. This is a Quadrant II (important, not urgent) activity that must be acted on. It's at the center of our Circle of Influence, so we must do it for ourselves.

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  • Author Stewart Copeland
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    [If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

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  • Author Theodore L. Cuyler
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    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.

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  • Author Thomas Carlyle
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    Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

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  • Author Travis Courson
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    It doesn't feel like 5-11. Every day in practice we're still coaching, and they're still learning. Sometimes you don't have that with a 5-11 record.

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  • Author Andrea Dworkin
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    Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

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  • Author Angela Davis
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    Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.

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