“When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc.; now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.” IfsArtYoungUsedPracticeEtcMartial ArtsScholarMixturesTheoreticalKarateSamuraiKung FuAikidoBushido Author:William C. Brown
“It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.” I CanUsedPracticeBrotherSurpriseLikes Author:Ernie Isley
“The dark aftermath of the frontier, of the vast promise of possibility this country first offered, is an inflated sense of American entitlement today. We want what we want, and we want it now. Easy credit. Fast food. A straight shot down the interstate from point A to point B. The endless highway is crowded with the kinds of cars large enough to take a mountain pass in high snow. Instead they are used to take children from soccer practice to Pizza Hut. In the process they burn fuel like there's no tomorrow. Tomorrow's coming.” WantFirstsKindChildrenCountryEnoughTodayUsedEasyProcessDarkPracticeCarPossibilityTomorrowPromiseFutureMountainShotsCreditEndlessSnowSoccerFuelHighwaysFrontiersCrowdedPizzaEntitlementFast FoodAftermathHutsInterstate Author:Anna Quindlen
“What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'” IfsGivingMotivationalTodayUsedLevelsPracticePlayerTomorrowPercentDetermineGive 100 Percent Author:John Wooden
“Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.” PeopleKindUsedSexPracticeRaisesAll KindsUsed To BeEroticFarmingCropsWheatCotton Author:Saul Bellow
“My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.” StillsPlayShowsUsedPracticePlayerTaughtDadBandMy DadSpotsThis DayRehearsalBassMichiganBass PlayersPlaying Bass Author:Mayer Hawthorne
“In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.” YearsLastsUsedPracticeFiveMonthsHarderPostsMinistersFive YearsPrimePrime MinisterLast Five Years Author:Shinzo Abe
“As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable.” PeopleBelieveChildrenImportantTogetherLawUsedForceSocialPracticeFemaleTraditionFoundationDiscriminationCodeJustifyEldersGreat RespectMutilationInfanticide Author:Mary Robinson
“Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They put you in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, they put you in solitary confinement to protect you from violence or whatever, and they also put you in solitary confinement just to show you who has got the power ... It's not something new; it's just something that nobody really cared about in the past.” YearsHas BeensReasonShowsPastUsedPracticeViolenceProtectNormalPrisonSomething NewSolitaryParts Of LifeProtect YouConfinementSolitary Confinement Author:Wilbert Rideau
“I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.” PeopleDoneSuccessUsedCareersPracticeMeditationBuddhismExerciseComputerStructureBuddhistComputer ScienceMonasteries Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to go out and sit in the car, and even in the summertime I'd have to roll up the windows. Because you just couldn't practice a banjo or a fiddle with other people around. Unless they're being paid.” PeopleFirstsUsedPracticeCarWindowPaidInstrumentsHorribleSummertimeFiddleBanjos Author:Steve Martin
“The Practice I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long.” WritingYearsFirstsLongShowsLawUsedPracticeLuckySevenSeven YearsObjectionsMonologues Author:Kelli Williams
“Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.” FeelsKindEndsShowsUsedFunHurtPracticeFeetHappeningsToughAddDancingTallHeelsHigh Heels Author:Ariana Grande
“I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.” IfsUsedForceLordPracticeViolencePunishmentRoyalty Author:Stanley Kubrick
“Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.” MenMeanUsedPracticeOughtPrisonPolicemen Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“I want the state to take away people's guns. But I don't want the state to use methods against gun owners that I deplore when used against naughty children, sexual minorities, drug users, and unsightly drinkers. Since such reprehensible police practices are probably needed to make anti-gun laws effective, my proposal to ban all guns should probably be marked a failure before it is even tried.” PeopleWantShouldChildrenStatesUseLawUsedPracticeNeededDrugGunPoliceMethodMinoritiesOwnersUsersProposalBansNaughtyUsing MeDrinkersGun OwnersAnti GunGun Law Book:Crime and Punishment: A Radical Solution Source: Crime and Punishment: A Radical Solution
“I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.” ThinkingWritingYearsKindBookDifferentFeelingsAgeUsedNightCultureChallengesMy OwnInterestingResultsPracticeMiddleTheoryWesternChineseAncestorSurprisingAsianFarmingMiddle AgesRicePeasantsReally InterestingWestern Culture Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.” BookUsedCoursesPracticeMagicFeetNew YorkStoresEncountersUnexpectedShelvesCrowdedUsed Books Author:Saul Williams
“Magic has always been of a great interest of mine. I was an amateur magician when I was young. I used to practice and read up on it a lot. I'm well-aware of the history of magic.” WellsYoungUsedInterestPracticeMagicMinesMagician Author:Woody Allen
“Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That's all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy.” ChildrenLongPlayRunningWantedUsedPracticeHeardExerciseBrownToysTrumpets Author:Wynton Marsalis
“I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.” LooksUsedEnjoyPractice Author:Carson Palmer
“Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.” IfsShouldDoneWould BeUsedEffortPracticeCenturyAmountAccustomedGood WillGood SenseScrapLegibility Author:Eric Gill
“The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility over specialization. With such an ethic, consumers would demand a shift toward more timeless design, away from fast-moving trends. Clothes could become more versatile in terms of what they can be used for, their ability to fit differently shaped bodies and to be altered.” BodyMovingUsedTermAbilityQualityPracticeDesignFitDemandClothesEthicsConsumersGuidanceTrendsClothingsQuantityLongevityTimelessNoveltyAlteredSpecializationVersatileVersatility Author:Juliet B. Schor
“Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.” WorldShouldMatterWholeUsedJesusChurchPracticeGrowingAirTreeWeekEffectsBirdGardenShould HaveSeedsKingdomsMeatSaltSmallestNestsContagiousSprinklesYeastSlabs Author:Philip Yancey
“The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.” MayArtHappensFormUsedDiesHousePracticeNovelFourPoetSixCoachesThings HappenIncomeUsed To BeServantPleasantStaffTennyson Author:William Monahan
“I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"” IfsWantUsedPurposeEnergyUnderstandingEffortPracticeAirPoetTrainingGet UpFasterAppropriateGesturesSplitsTimingEntityPreparingVocabularyCorrectnessAlphabetUp In The Air Author:Edward Villella