#practice

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#become #correction #dearest #dearest friend #faults

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere. ↗

— Frank Miller

#cinema #hollywood #medium #practice #town

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

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play. ↗

— Li Na

#again #back #because #before #early

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#actor #aids #allow #craft #cues

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ↗

— George Orwell

#always #beings #demand #get #human

I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#called #coach #could #deep #ended

It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#children #consideration #direct #practice #salespeople