#practice

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#art #challenge #impossible #making #politics

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#deity #i #one thing #practiced #thing

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#east #may #one word #politics #practice

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#activities #choices #inert #often #practice

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#any #asked #because #brought #buddhist

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law. ↗

— Walter Wager

#first #i #law #never #passed

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. ↗

— George Washington

#cursing #despises #detests #every #foolish

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#fog #ideas #impenetrable #inflate #inhibit

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#practice-god-s-presence #simplicity #beauty

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. ↗

— Rebecca West

#banned #book #forbid #god #indefensible