Win The Life

We cannot make good news out of bad practice. - Edward R. Murrow

 

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. - Edward Morgan Forster

 

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. - Confucius

 

As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the difference personalities make. - Henry Kissinger

 

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. - Martha Graham

 

There are two classes of poets, the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice. - Natalie Goldberg

 

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. - Otto von Bismarck

 

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.-Joseph Wambaugh

 

I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.-Ricky Williams

 

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.-Stanislav Grof

 

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.-Abe Lemons

 

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.-Elihu Root

 

I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say.-Geraldine Ferraro

 

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.-Bob Woodward

 

What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.-Al Kaline

 

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.-Piers Anthony

 

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.-Ivan Lendl

 

If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.-Ivan Lendl

 

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.-Charles Dudley Warner

 

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.-Ezra Cornell

 

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.-Lorrie Fair

 

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.-Jock Sturges

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.-Oksana Baiul

 

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.-Dweezil Zappa

 

For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.-John Hutton

 

Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.-John W. Snow

 

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.-Anita Desai

 

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.-Andrea Dworkin

 

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.-Neil Diamond

 

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.-Gabriela Sabatini

 

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.-Nora Roberts

 

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.-Mel Gibson

 

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.-Arnold J. Toynbee

 

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.-Pierre Bourdieu

 

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.-Carroll Quigley

 

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.-Isaac Barrow

 

Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have.-Dizzy Dean

 

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.-Shoshana Zuboff

 

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.-James Beard

 

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.-Richard Stallman

 

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.-Pete Sampras

 

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.-Dogen Zenji

 

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.-Lawrence Welk

 

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.-Itzhak Perlman

 

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.-Sasha Cohen

 

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.-Robert Rainy

 

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.-Minor White

 

We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life.-Bob Seger

 

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.-Matthew Henry

 

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.-Norah Jones

 

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.-Charlie Parker

 

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.-Payne Stewart

 

Because I practice often with my children at home.-Andrea Bocelli

 

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.-Sharon Stone

 

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.-Art Garfunkel

 

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.-William Falconer

 

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.-Frank Luntz

 

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.-William Graham Sumner

 

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.-Uma Thurman

 

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.-Wislawa Szymborska

 

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.-Allan Bloom

 

I try to practice with my life.-Herbie Hancock

 

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.-Arsene Wenger

 

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.-Edward Gibbon

 

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.-Bobby Darin

 

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.-Doug Coupland

 

That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it.-Greg Norman

 

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.-Travis Barker

 

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.-Thomas Kempis

 

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.-Pat Robertson

 

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.-Brandi Chastain

 

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.-Jerry Lee Lewis

 

If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!-Victoria Beckham

 

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.-Geddy Lee

 

I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.-Geddy Lee

 

It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.-Geddy Lee

 

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.-Guy Forget

 

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.-Tre Cool

 

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.-Carol Bellamy

 

I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.-Mila Kunis

 

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.-Jill Scott

 

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.-Albert Pike

 

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.-Philip Larkin

 

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.-Pat Robertson

 

The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.-Mangosuthu Buthelezi

 

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.-Hosea Ballou

 

As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.-Christy Turlington