#practic

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#america #biggest #black #black and white #block

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#competitive #during #enthusiasm #game #get

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#buildings #doing #duty #first #goodness

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#civilised #even #great #importance #matter

In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#health #health care #hospitals #limiting #more

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'. ↗

— Marat Safin

#behind #care #coming #everything #fault

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this. ↗

— Marat Safin

#courts #give #hate #i #practicing

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with. ↗

— Marat Safin

#balls #break #buy #courts #impossible

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#democratic #friends #further #leading #lots