Quotes About Practice

Cooking — that is, the actual mixing, measuring, boiling, and baking — was taught under the heading Laboratory Practice.

I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake

The black vampire whispered in her ear again. She laughed, so high and clear you could have bottled it. "Do you practice the laugh, or is it natural talent? Naw, I'm betting you practice." Jean-Claude's face twisted. I wasn't sure if he was trying not to laugh, or not to frown. Maybe both. I affected some people that way. The

Nothing like near death to get you to practice.

It is always hard to be tough when you have to look up to see someone's eyes. But I've been short all my life, and practice makes perfect.

No wonder the zombies were crazy. They thought they were supposed to practice breeding before they learned how to do their own laundry. They talked about it, thought about it, maybe did it, all while going through the motions of attending class and learning stuff so that they could go forth and become productive adults. Whatever that was supposed to mean.

there is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.

Faith and fear, they tell me, can't coexist. I try to practice by doing what I'm afraid to do, and I manage (now and then, anyway) by means of faith. Faith that I will do myself more good than harm by the risks I am willing to take as a writer. And faith, finally, that the best service I can do myself is to do the best and most honest work of which I am capable.

I learned to practice smiling when I'm feeling sad, you know?

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.