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Quotes About Practice

Amateurs work until they get it right. Professionals work until they can't get it wrong.
~ Author Unknown
Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
~ James Bryce (1838–1922)
A surgeon should be young, a physician old.
~ Proverb
No monastery has been successful at producing enlightenment. It has been tried; there are no shortcuts.
~ H.W.L. Poonja
If you practice, you will only become fatigued. When you are fatigued, you throw away everything. At that instant, you are free. To get rid of everything is freedom. Everything that you do suggests "Get rid of me." To get rid of desires is freedom, freedom from the function of the mind.
~ H.W.L. Poonja
Free trade economists have to explain how free trade can be an explanation for the economic success of today's rich countries, when it simply had not been practised very much before they became rich.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
Free trade economists have to explain how free trade can be an explanation for the economic success of today's rich countries, when it simply had not been practised very much before they became rich.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
~ Hal Sparks
He practiced the code of swift reprisal that was almost universally practiced by the Indians themselves: Failure to strike back, he understood, would only be interpreted as weakness and inevitably lead to an even bolder assault.
~ Hampton Sides
Without discipline, Religion would be impossible
~ Hamza Yusuf
There is an inward and outward state in every human soul, with the inward being im?n (the condition of the faith) and the outward being isl?m (the manifestation or practice of the faith). When the two come together inwardly and outwardly, the resulting balance is a truly beautiful human being, one generally called a mu?sin, one whose worship and character are excellent.
~ Hamza Yusuf
baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course...
~ Hank Aaron
There's no experience like on-the-job training.
~ Hank Azaria
F?r? cunoaÈ™terea estetic?, nici raÈ›iunea teoretic?, nici cea practic? nu pot s?-È™i ating? împlinirea total?.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.
~ Harlan Mills
You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
~ Harold Geneen
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
~ Harold Geneen
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
~ Harold Rosenberg
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you. I hate reasoning, John,—especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves, when it comes to practice. I know you well enough, John. You don't believe it's right any more than I do; and you wouldn't do it any sooner than I.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves when it comes to practice.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Augustine, sometimes I think you are not far from the kingdom," said Miss Ophelia, laying down her knitting, and looking anxiously at her cousin. "Thank you for your good opinion; but it's up and down with me,—up to heaven's gate in theory, down in earth's dust in practice.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
I hate reasoning, John - especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe it yourselves, when it comes to practice.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe