Quotes
Quotes about Practice
It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.
A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Practice in time becomes second nature.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered, never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,--a practice which has now passed into a proverb. It was also a practice with him, when he had completed a work, to exhibit it to the view of the passers-by in his studio, while he himself, concealed behind the picture, would listen to the criticisms.... Under these circumstances, they say that he was censured by a shoemaker for having represented the shoes with one latchet too few. The next day, the shoemaker, quite proud at seeing the former error corrected, thanks to his advice, began to criticise the leg; upon which Apelles, full of indignation, popped his head out and reminded him that a shoemaker should give no opinion beyond the shoes, --a piece of advice which has equally passed into a proverbial saying.
Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.
The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.
Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men."
Is it not a pleasure to learn and to repeat or practice from time to time what has been learned? Is it not delightful to have friends coming from afar? Is one not a superior man if he does not feel hurt even though he does not feel recognized?
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
In the first place, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.
Practice no vice because it's trivial. Neglect no virtue because it's so.
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.
Never practice two vices at once.
The Oxen and the Butchers The oxen once upon a time sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a certain day to carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest. But one of them who was exceedingly old (for many a field had he plowed) thus spoke: These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a double death: for you may be assured, that though all the Butchers should perish, yet will men never want beef. Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
