#practic

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. ↗

— Merton Miller

#big #comes #down #gain #huge

I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#enjoyed #fairly #focused #goal #i

I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#back #decision #enjoyed #federal #federal judge

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#anything #continue #doing #impractical #living

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them. ↗

— Maria Monk

#astonishment #criminal #duties #great #horror

Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play! ↗

— Joe Montana

#like #play #practice #some

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#authoritarianism #begin #conviction #corruption #defeating

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#american #beginner #clarke #closely #drummers

We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#childhood #desks #drop #fortunate #had

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#art #being #essential #failures #life