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Quotes About Practices

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
~ John Wooden
I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
~ Kangana Ranaut
In the realm of self-correction mechanisms, then, we can find another source of validation for a core tenet of pre-suasion: immediate, large-scale adjustments begin frequently with practices that do little more than redirect attention.69
~ Robert B. Cialdini
Consider, for example, the truly hideous practice of creating a variable named klass just because the name class was used for something else.
~ Robert C. Martin
Few practices are as odious as commenting-out code. Don't do this!
~ Robert C. Martin
Implementation Patterns.
~ Robert C. Martin
Duplication may be the root of all evil in software. Many principles and practices have been created for the purpose of controlling or eliminating it.
~ Robert C. Martin
There are two parts to learning craftsmanship: knowledge and work. You must gain the knowledge of principles, patterns, practices, and heuristics that a craftsman knows, and you must also grind that knowledge into your fingers, eyes, and gut by working hard and practicing.
~ Robert C. Martin
Building trust is no longer a matter of creating structures and practices within a single culture.
~ Robert C. Solomon
Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.
~ Robert C. Solomon
Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.
~ Robert C. Solomon
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
~ Samuel Wilson
I remember, but you see, that doesn't work for me. I say life is given meaning by context. There are no individual selves. There are only humans embedded in practices, places, cultures.
~ Adrian McKinty
The intractability of the software-construction process—particularly the high cost of programming and the low quality of interaction—is simply not a technical problem. It is the result of business practices imposed on a discipline—software programming—for which they are obsolete.
~ Alan Cooper
many of our current practices seem to be the wrong way around ... we seem to make church complex and discipleship too easy.
~ Alan Hirsch
Our reactions reflect our repentance. Our practices reveal our priorities. Changed lives change lives.
~ Dillon Burroughs
Once again, it must be reiterated that beliefs and practices that developed in response to earlier, and presumably different, environmental pressures tend to persist, and the result may come to be far less than efficient utilization of an environment
~ Don Edward Beck
The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words "going along". We simply go along with the values and practices of society.
~ Jerry Bridges
Should I pity so and so? I asked. I gave his name but he delights so in giving it himself that I feel there is no need to give it for him. No. He's vicious. He's a corrupter and he's truly vicious. But he's supposed to be a good writer. He's not, she said. He's just a showman and he corrupts for the pleasure of corruption and he leads people into other vicious practices as well.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When Europeans came to the Americas and witnessed Aztec sacrificial rituals, they were coming from a continent with practices that in many ways were equally barbaric, but because they understood the justifications of their own practices, they viewed them differently.
~ Andrew Mayne
While a culture may be defined by the customs and accepted practices of its people, it is critical to understand that it is the thinking of its people that creates a culture in the first place.
~ Andy Andrews
I've done this a couple times, been to a couple different camps and a couple different AAU practices to talk to kids. I tell them you have to be dedicated, have to decide if you want to be a serious basketball player or not. They always ask, 'What if you get discouraged?' You have to remember what your goal was in the first place.
~ Jahlil Okafor
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.
~ Alan Stern