Quotes by category:Practice

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

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Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put yo... by Paulo Coelho

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

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Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that what surrounds us in nature, until, in Neo-Plasticism, nature is no longer dominant. This achievement of balance may prepare the way for the fulfillment of man and signal the end of (what we call) art.

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Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality time with their firearms down there, and the hammering of multiple rounds was typical background noise during our workdays. There was something unsettling about toiling away for a prison while listening to your jailers practice shooting you.

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But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

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It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Pliny the Younger

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Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better a... by PJ Harvey

Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.

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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

Pliny the Elder

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Practice yourself what you preach. by Plautus

Practice yourself what you preach.

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The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words.

Pope Benedict XIV

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Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. by Plato

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.

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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put... by Pope Gregory I

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

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Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

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The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.

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The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works

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It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

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The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid...Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment."

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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it... by Plutarch

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

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