#practic

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place. ↗

— Criss Jami

#athletes #athletics #competition #confidence #improvement

Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists. ↗

— David Brin

#environmentalism #environmentalists #logistics #people #practicality

I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Homes, in one of his queer humours, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Practices were tough. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own. ↗

— Woody Allen

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I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way. ↗

— Kathy Acker

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As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again. ↗

— Josef Albers

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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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