Quotes by Practice What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that the dream of democratic socialism is inferior to the dream of democratic capitalism, and that the latter's superiority in actual practice is undeniable. Michael Novak practicedreamthinking I think with practice, you can being whatever you want to be, and with a goal you can go in any direction that you want to go in. Michael Phelps goalpracticethinking For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love? Michael Pollan selfishpracticepeople Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places. Michael Parenti practicelyingdirty No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, and standardizing the varieties of human experience. Michael Parenti practicecultureyears I'm so frightened of these two people, Bill and Hillary [Clintons], that I'm making an all-out effort to make the truth known about these horrific practices. Michael Savage practicetwopeople I would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences. Michael Sandel practicesexthinking I think people should start to practice the words 'President Romney.' Michael Moore practicepeoplethinking I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist. Michael Steger dentalauntpractice When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to-he will find he has little need for machinery, fertilizer, and, most strikingly, chemicals. He finds he has no sanitation problem or any of the diseases that result from raising a single animal in a crowded monoculture and then feeding it things it wasn't designed to eat. This is perhaps the greatest efficiency of a farm treated as a biological system: health. Michael Pollan differentpracticeanimal To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction. Michael Pollan things-in-lifepracticesound Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions. Michael Wright generositypracticechristian Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full. Michael Pollan populationprinciplespractice Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. 'I feel good here': the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. Michel de Certeau painpracticepast To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation. Michel de Certeau citiespracticemoving It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other. Michel de Certeau practicewritingmoving The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices. Michel de Certeau oblivioncitiespractice The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten. Michel de Certeau ablepracticeworld To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. Michel de Montaigne practicewaitingmen Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem to have been haunted by the return of a very ancient (preChristian) and very “pagan” alliance between power and religion. It is as though now that religion has ceased to be an autonomous power (the “power of religion,” people used to say), politics has once again become religious. 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