#practic

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#diplomat #dull #experimental #financier #i

I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid! ↗

— R. L. Stine

#books #comic #comic books #every #get

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. ↗

— Joseph Story

#bad #bad government #executed #execution #feeble

We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#afraid #against #being #being afraid #cannot

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#beings #competing #conditions #following #human

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. ↗

— Paul Harvey

#dead #just #practice #practicing #retiring

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be. ↗

— Norman Foster

#any #certain #closer #control #could

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem. ↗

— Mary Barnett Gilson

#democracy #find #great #our #practicing

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground. ↗

— Heather Graham

#i #lift #meant #meditation #off

Practicing the presence of God is not on trial. Countless saints have already proved it. Indeed, the spiritual giants of all ages have known it. The results of this effort begin to show clearly in a month. They grow rich after six months, and glorious after ten years. This is the secret of the great saints of all ages. 'Pray without ceasing,' said Paul, 'in everything make your wants known unto God.' 'As many as are led by the spirit of God, these are the sons of God. ↗

— Frank Charles Laubach

#practice-god-s-presence #age