“Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'” IfsWellsTwoHardPracticeMonthsDirectorsCall MeTwo Months Author:Melanie Laurent
“But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.” PeopleWantNeedsWellsHelpingCareBehindsPracticeLosingStonesFaultsHe Doesn't Care Author:Marat Safin
“God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.” WellsChristianPracticeJudgingOughtChristian InspirationalTolerate Author:Vance Havner
“Manage through the uncertainties. Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices. Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you: celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own. Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.” WellsActionValuesChoicesOpportunityIndividualPracticeHealthyLoyaltyCirclesManageCelebrateUncertaintyAppropriateCheerfulnessCompetenciesHealthy Choices Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will find within us Christ the spring of life (cf. Gen. 26:15-18). Wisdom commands us to drink from this spring, saying, 'Drink water from your own pitchers and from the spring of your own wells' (Prov. 5:15). If we do this we shall find that the treasures of wisdom truly are within us.” IfsWellsMeanChristianSpiritualChristWaterPracticeVirtueDrinkSpringTreasureCommandContemplationOrthodoxPitcherCfsDrink WaterSpiritual Knowledge Author:Maximus the Confessor
“The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.” YearsWellsChristianNightFoundPracticeCenturyDrugSickPatientStoresMedicalIgnorantDullPhysiciansDay And NightEighteenHideousDose Author:Mark Twain
“Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.” WayWellsTwoPracticeDivorceRemarriage Author:Charlton Laird
“I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.” PeopleIfsWorldWellsWould BeYoungFoundPracticeTaughtOnly LoveLove One AnotherLovable Author:George Bernard Shaw
“We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.” WorldWellsSelfEarthPoliticalIndividualSocialGrowthReligiousPracticeEventsAcceptanceCivilizationConsciousEvidenceRelationStructureWesternInternationalContemporaryRealizationManifestWorld HistoryHere And NowShakingInternational RelationsBreakdownWestern CivilizationAnalyticsSocial StructurePsych Author:Edward F Edinger
“The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account” PeopleWellsPracticeSeriousDutyAccountsMajorityPermitSchooledUneasiness Book:1829-1836 Source: 1829-1836
“I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape.” WellsPracticeWorryShapesBallsPlentyInjuryHitting Author:Tim Henman
“Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.” FirstsWellsSleepPracticeFollowingLustAppetiteRestraint Author:Pythagoras
“Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.” PeopleGivingWellsStillsSpiritualPracticeYogaRoundsEdgesKarmaEgotisticalSpiritual PracticeKarma Yoga Author:Frederick Lenz
“Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push those thoughts aside.” ThinkingWellsPracticeHumilityBuddhismIll Author:Frederick Lenz
“Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.” WellsValuesRolesPracticeRelativeCurrency Author:John W. Snow
“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.” PeopleMenWellsHappensDifferencesPrinciplesPracticeQuietOfficeStatementsDryThings In Life Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.” ThinkingWellsSeemsFightingTermPracticeGenderGender EqualityNorwayForward ThinkingConstantly Thinking Author:Jenny Hval
“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. It is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society, all the little inconveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; it is the giving a pleasing and flattering turn to our expressions, which will conciliate others, and make them pleased with us as well as themselves. How cheap a price for the good will of another!” WantGivingWellsLittlesRealEndsMomentsTurnsNaturalPracticeVirtueSacrificeExpressionConsiderationSubstitutesArtificialPreferenceGood WillPolitenessFlatteringHabitualInconvenienceRenderingGood Humor Author:Thomas Jefferson