Quotes of: Practice-makes Keyword

I have the feeling we just made a deal with the devil, and he's going to come back and want our first-born child or something." Daemon waggled his brows. "You want kids? Because you know, practice makes--" "Shut up." I shook my head and started walki...

Opal

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative

Some people think that actresses tend not to be practical or domestic. That we're very flighty and emotionally vulnerable. Trust me, I'm not like that. My house is very clean and organised. I'm not a great cook - my husband does most of the cooking. ...

Julianne Moore

Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an entire paragraph out of a single sentence. The reader is completely sensory deprived of the story until the words show the way...

Christopher T. Garry

The thing about gay marriage is simply that it's not gay. It's marriage. If you are uncomfortable with marriage, you can not outlaw marriage. And, shocking, even if homosexuality makes someone uncomfortable, one can not outlaw identifying as or pract...

Cristina Marrero

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get th...

Colm Toibin

[Strangelove admits that he investigated making such a machine] Dr. Strangelove: Based on the findings of the report, my conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

your mother is the longest magic show you will ever see no one knows how her face is target practice for her partner and a shield for her children how she makes a mouthful of blood disappear erases bruises hardens teeth how she wakes up and dresses h...

Love

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Critique of Practical Reason

All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.

Designed For Recreation: A Practical Handbook For All Concerned With Providing Leisure Facilities In The Countryside

You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.

The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled

Resistance, in the form of opposition or lack of support from others is often a sign telling you to move forward and on to bigger and better things.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

You are your own soul mate, so love and treat yourself in the same way you would your life partner.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

Prioritise self-care & incorporate a MINIMUM of 60 mins 'ME TIME' into your daily routine. YES THERE ARE enough hours in the day. NO EXCUSES.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

When we fulfill any need of the human body, it gives us pleasure. To breathe gives us much pleasure.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions but you do not judge or blame yourself.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page.

The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

At its best, leadership development is not an “event.” It’s a capacity-building endeavor. It’s a process of human growth and development.

7 Lenses Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership