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“Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.”

Men Differences Practice Events Draws Gun Shooting

Book:Sackett

Source: Sackett

“Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.”

People Men Wells Happens Differences Principles Practice Quiet Office Statements Dry Things In Life

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.”

Humans Reason Natural Differences Animal Practice Bases Flesh Customs Feeding Equity

Author:George Cheyne

“The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.”

America Differences Practice South Separation South Africa Integration Segregation

Author:Malcolm X

“I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.”

Ifs Bigs Differences Practice And Love Golf Very Good Holes Hitting

Author:Barry Lane

“We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.”

People Ifs Looks Differences Practice Special Divine Gifted

Author:Richard Bach

“While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.”

Important States Political Differences United Practice Technology United States Policy Innovation Management Factors Explanation Japan Trends Engineering Paradigm High Technology

Book:Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions

Source: Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions

“The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.”

Doe Two Three Differences Practice Audience Discipline Essentials Critics Two Days Skip

Author:Jascha Heifetz

“The real test is this one: When you're alone in a room, when you're in a private place and nobody else can see you, what do you choose to do? Eat well, or eat poorly? Exercise, or watch television? Practice something, or do nothing? The best version of the truth appears to you and you alone, when nobody else can see. This is the test of discipline, and it's what makes the difference in your life. It's what regulates your own system and guides it. The individual alone comprehends it.”

Wells Real Individual Differences Rooms Watches Practice Television Discipline Exercise Tests Guides Versions You Choose

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.”

“The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.”

Differences Religious Practice Nonviolence Religious Differences

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.”

Men Long Evil Differences Views Practice Modern Point Of View Tolerance Doctrine Paralyzed Modern Man

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.”

Differences Practice Technology Historical

Author:Bill Gates

“The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.”

Has Beens Stills Important Seems Process Differences Known Practice Photography Capable Claims Digital Abandon Rhetoric Objectivity Fabrication Imaging

Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History