Practice Or Practise Quotes

#1. My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

Beverly Cleary

#2. To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.

Emmet Fox

#3. Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.

Allan Savory

#4. Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?"
-Spader

D.J. MacHale

#5. It's vital always to bear in mind that we practise for the sake of all other beings, and that the enormity of this aspiration is what makes dharma practice both extremely powerful and inexhaustible, virtually guaranteeing that the result will be infinitely beneficial.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

#6. A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Most people think confidence lies in an excessive rehearsal. It's true that man has to prepare, plan and practice before projecting his purposes. But a time must definitely arrive when man has to put an end to learning and rehearsal and start practicing what he spent time learning.

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

Idries Shah

#9. A cancer cell is an astonishing perversion of the normal cell. Cancer is a phenomenally successful invader and colonizer in part because it exploits the very features that make us successful as a species or as an organism.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#10. ...life was a glorious catastrophe.

Jess Walter

#11. What do you always think about? What do you think you can do easily? What do you find peace in your heart to do? Watch those things carefully because among them is something on which you can turn the entire environment surrounding you for your success.

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

Patricia Heaton

#13. Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice
without knowledge is dangerous.

Confucius

#14. Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.

Slavoj Zizek

#15. Summer-we all have seen-
A few of us-believed-
A few the more aspiring
Unquestionably loves ...

Emily Dickinson

#16. I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Bessemer

#17. On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.

Terry Hayes

#18. The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.

Christopher Pike

#19. A tureen of tragedy was best allotted by the spoonful. Only a few patients demanded the whole at once; most needed time to digest.

Paul Kalanithi

#20. It's important to me to be in a relationship when I'm in one, but I'm not someone who needs to be in a relationship.

Rufus Sewell

#21. [W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self.

Steve Hagen

#22. Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one.

Missy Peregrym

#23. Our attitude toward others reveals our genuine attitude toward God.

David Jeremiah

#24. Fine! Do whatever you want. And when you get fleas, don't come complaining to me.

Shelly Laurenston

#25. Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

William Wilberforce