#practic

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#believe #bible #change #church #evangelical

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it. ↗

— LeBron James

#call #could #few #good #i

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#anything #attained #critical #even #inner

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#attitude #becomes #contents #demand #entailed

I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox. ↗

— Edward Jenner

#comes #day #hope #human #human beings

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#destroys #difficult #enemy #extremely #great

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bring #confusing #contract #contracting #database

When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#elvis #ever #figure #fortune #get

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#failures #his #inventor #once #practice

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. ↗

— William James

#each #everybody #hates #just #least