Quotes of: Practice-makes Keyword

I want to affirm that thinking and living, knowing and doing, theory and practice intersect.

Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

Daughter of the Blood

Growing up in a family of gamblers, daredevils and practical jokers, I've learned a lot about timing and its first cousin, dumb luck, concepts I was introduced to while still in the womb.

Death Over Easy

Indeed, not all attacks—especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin—are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

From Dream To Discovery: On Being A Scientist

CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice, and tried not to be offended. Key word: tried.

The Darkest Secret

Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.

Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

The criminalization of a non-custodial in not uncommon; such extreme measures of the divorce and post-divorce process can be described as common practice. Stephen Baskerville describes this consequence of no-fault in the article, “Divorced from Rea...

A Father and Future Felon

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Poverty of young men alone behind the stairways, who practice alchemy inside bottle caps, who know the altruism of a last syringe.

Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems

You know she’s a liar if she says she’s never done it for ten bucks. We’ve all done it. Practically giving it away. But sometimes you can’t even give it away." - excerpt from: freefalling

freefalling

Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it's that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

The Golden Compass

A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath.

Green Tea Living: A Japan-Inspired Guide to Eco-friendly Habits, Health, and Happiness

We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

Gestalt Therapy Integrated: Contours of Theory & Practice

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

...the villagers had decided that 'practical' meant 'extremely magical and full of interesting objects' and had officially subtitled themselves, Winesap: A Pracktical Towne.

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland - For a Little While

My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be.

Holding on to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting for

What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed.

Hush, Hush

I’d practically groped her under the guise of helping her get out a stain, but still, she looked like she found me about as appealing as second-hand underpants.

The Hooker and the Hermit

If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will stil...

The Art of War

Live happy, practice kindness, generate love, teach peace, stay grateful and in all that you are and do...be great.

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying