#practic

I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#blocks #body #cry #even #frustrated

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#desirable #dynamism #extremely #future #general

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#also #desired #evil #former #good

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. ↗

— Donna Karan

#challenge #comfort #constant #design #desirable

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#dead #history #intellectual #intellectual life #life

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#aroused #carrying #definite #enthusiasm #first

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#choreographed #class #dance #day #every

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#like #manage #managed #management #others

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours. ↗

— William Vickrey

#any #available #desirable #employment #find

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques. ↗

— Troy Vincent

#game #injuries #just #our #part