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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.
Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.
The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.
A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.
In practice, the U.K.'s most consistent strategic objective in relation to Iraq was to reduce the level of its deployed forces.
The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.
Everyone has the right to practice their religious beliefs in private but expect that people might publicly reject said beliefs.
War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.
When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in this?
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.
The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.
It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going on.
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.
The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.
Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life.
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there.
My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.
To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.
Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
I think with practice, you can being whatever you want to be, and with a goal you can go in any direction that you want to go in.
In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)
Many things you are already practicing; but you practice them under fear. But if you practice them under love they become Divine.
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.
Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.
A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?
Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis
[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.