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Quotes About Practice

People do not come to work to do a bad job. Safety in complex systems is not a result of getting rid of people, of reducing their degrees of freedom. Safety in complex systems is created by people through practice—at all levels of an organization.
~ Sidney Dekker
Safety improvements come from organizations monitoring and understanding the gap between proceedures and practice
~ Sidney Dekker
Indeed, automation does not fail often, which limits people's ability to practice the kinds of breakdown scenarios that still justifies their marginal presence in the system. Here, the human is painted as a passive monitor, whose greatest safety risks would lie in deskilling, complacency, vigilance decrements and the inability to intervene in deteriorating circumstances.
~ Sidney Dekker
So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value of our reflections.
~ Simon Blackburn
Reflection matters because it is continuous with practice. How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all.
~ Simon Blackburn
So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value of our reflections. A system of thought is something we live in, just as much as a house, and if our intellectual house is cramped and confined, we need to know what better structures are possible
~ Simon Blackburn
We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.
~ Simon Mainwaring
Dating is a lot like sports. You have to practice; you work out; you study the greats. You hope to make the team, and it hurts to be cut.
~ Sinbad
Yesterday we failed, today we practice and tomorrow we will master.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
~ Sir William Osler
It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.
~ Sir William Osler
I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
We will develop love, we will practice it, we will make it both a way and a basis.
~ Gautama Buddha
My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.
~ Alastair Campbell
Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.
~ Amy Chua
Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.
~ Confucius
If you want to follow the path of love, it's a good idea to meditate on the heart chakra everyday. The heart chakra is in the center of the chest.
~ Frederick Lenz
It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
~ James Madison
More succinctly put, Inspirational Psychology offers ways to live, learn about, and practice love.
~ Lee L Jampolsky
Habit is everything, even in love.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Love-making is an art which must be studied.
~ Ivor Novello
That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.
~ Cheri Huber
We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.
~ Dorothy Day
I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.
~ Barry Lane