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Quotes About Practice

Medicine is aptly described as an art, not a science. To this end, four different doctors may have up to four different diagnoses or prescriptions.
~ Andrew Saul
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.
~ Aldo Leopold
I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.
~ Robert Jarvik
Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.
~ Robertson Davies
But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.
~ Claude Bernard
In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.
~ François Magendie
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.
~ Francis Bacon
Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.
~ Thomas Sydenham
Magic is an ancient practice that has power over superstitious mind.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
In order to be a better writer, one must always write.
~ Safa Shaqsy, The Finite
We have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp.
~ Nhat Hanh
At age ten I switched to guitar, and I've loved the instrument ever since. And I love to practice. I just do. I just love guitar. It still brings a smile to my face!
~ Michael Angelo Batio
Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window.
~ Nhat Hanh
I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
Practice is the interest, the love, the drive, the tendency, the movement, to be as authentic as possible, to be as real as possible.
~ A. H. Almaas
Love, compassion, kindness, and generosity change their function from being motivations for practice to becoming expressions of realization.
~ A.H. Almaas
The cacophony in my head is completely unmanageable, and it's out of the failure to blend all those dissonant voices smoothly that whatever individuality I might have has managed to emerge. Imitation is the condition of originality. Or, to put it another way: imitation is the shortest route to and the truest test of proficiency. To mimic a master requires skill and practice, which become the sources of your own mastery.
~ A.O. Scott
Where did you learn that smile? Have you been practicing in front of a holo of Han Solo? Mara to Luke
~ Aaron Allston
A tradition is a living argument. A living argument for a practice that began a long time ago.
~ Adrian McKinty
ur Shia Quran Center is laid on the belief that Islam teaches a complete way of life. On the basis of this belief, Our Institute endeavours to teach Islam to the Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslims so that they can practice Islam as a way of life. Academy has made it possible to get Quran and Religion sessions at your home. Aim
~ Aimee Bender
If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
~ Ajahn Chah
First you understand the Dhamma with your thoughts. If you begin to understand it, you will practice it. And if you practice it, you will begin to see it, you are the Dhamma and you have the joy of the Buddha.
~ Ajahn Chah
Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
~ Alain de Botton