“ Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing. ”
- William A. Ward- Copy
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“ While practicing virtue during normal situations, the superior person always makes further effort when there is a deficiency, and never goes over the limit where excess is approaching. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves. ”
- Barbara Ann Cochran- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ When we decode a cookbook, every one of us is a practicing chemist. Cooking is really the oldest, most basic application of physical and chemical forces to natural materials. ”
- Arthur E. Grosser- Copy
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“ The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ”
- Theodore Hesburgh- Copy
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“ Learning, understanding, or practicing spiritual disciplines will not immunize you against any of the lessons you must "grow through" in your life. ”
- Iyanla Vanzant- Copy
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“ I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. ”
- Molly Ivins- Copy
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“ Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. ”
- Knute Rockne- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Vladimir Lenin- Copy
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“ When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. ”
- Ed Macauley- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Larry Bird- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson- Copy
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“ If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice. ”
- Bowen Baxter- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ We make our habits and our habits make us. Practicing bad habits over a long period of time can ingrain attitudes, beliefs and feelings so firmly that escape seems impossible. In such cases, you must exhibit change - do it, perform its outward manifestations - before you can learn to believe in it… ”
- Denis Waitley- Copy
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“ After a sabbatical from radio for nearly a year, I needed to work with Charlie again. Ventriloquism is not like riding a bicycle. I have to keep practicing or Charlie would sit tounge-tied, silently staring at me with the chill eye of a department store dummy. ”
- Edgar Bergen- Copy
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“ When I first started practicing law in the 1960s, no person had ever won a case against the City of Los Angeles for violation of their civil rights. There came a time when I felt morally I just could not try these cases anymore. I then left the office and my time in private practice has been interesting to say the least. ”
- Johnnie Cochran- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Jane Elliot- Copy
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“ This morning I was practicing raga, and at one point I was singing a long tone and I became very peaceful and still. I thought this is really the highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else, just to be in a state of being to the highest point. ”
- Terry Riley- Copy
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“ The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it……Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations… ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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