Quotes About Practice

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.

I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it.

Custom is second nature.

If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.

The Jedi cultivated a practice of nonattachment, which had always served them well. Few understood, though, that while specific, individual bonds such as romantic love or family were forbidden, the Jedi were not ashamed of compassion. All lives were precious, and when so many were lost in such a way, the Jedi felt the pain of it in the Force as well as in their own hearts. At

Surprise is the practice of accepting the unexpected interruption, and the practice of leaving enough space in the day for something to happen that isn't on the list. Surrendering to surprise is the practice of balancing structure and openness.

Son of a bitch, you're scary, he informed Jackson. Where the hell did you get that look? Practicing in the mirror every day?

Gregory's words remain a sharp and timely rebuke to the continuing temptation to practice theology as though we could separate the exercise of our mind from the development of our character.

Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.

the monks called it Jew-dô, meaning the way of the Jew.

El pecado de Onán. Derramar en el suelo la vieja semilla. Atar el camello. Quitarle el polvo al burro. Azotar al fariseo. Onanismo, el pecado que requiere de cientos de horas de práctica para ser dominado, o al menos eso era lo que yo me decía a mí mismo. Dios mató a Onán por derramar su semilla en el suelo (la semilla de Onán, no la de Dios).

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.

And there they were being so responsible, practicing safe sex and all. She'd been a fool to believe all that hype, she thought. The only hundred percent safe sex was between Barbie and Ken, and she'd heard rumors that they weren't doing it anymore.

I'm beginning to sound like a novice repeating formulas," he muttered to Dannyl irritably. "Perhaps you should write a report on your progress every evening and nail it to your door.

no theory of hermeneutic legitimation can be indeed legitimate if not by the process of hermeneutic reading… At the origin of the hermeneutic practice, there is a circle; it does not matter how holy or how vicious.

The habit of loving is definitely one to be cultivated.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

You know, Chuck, You're not always gonna swish. You gonna miss some. Heck, you gonna miss a lot. That's the way the rel world works. But you gotta grab the ball and keep shooting. You understand? I tell you what, though, you'll make a lot more than you miss if you're not always going for the flash and flair.

Our prayer life is our Christian life miniaturized. What we believe about life with God reveals itself in how we pray.

Now, Lovecraft was notoriously fond of sweets. He consumed vast quantities of chocolate and ice cream; he so saturated his coffee with sugar that a sticky mass was left in the cup. If he was hyperinsulinic, such a practice was guaranteed to cause a collapse of the kind he told about.

The common practice of cunning is a sign of small genius; and it almost always happens that those who use it to cover themselves in one place, lay themselves open in another.