#practiced

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it. ↗

— John Zorn

#house #i #i do #mean #note

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things. ↗

— John Bolton

#bureaucracy #different #different things #done #government

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#because #get #i #like #lips

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#analogous #consciously #does #fact #fictional

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#being #commits #error #errors #essential

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#i #kick #kicks #man #once

Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#had #i #never #opportunity #practice

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

#best #coming #i #practiced #thought

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#i #instrument #practiced #singer #without

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years. ↗

— Alfred Kazin

#education #left #like #liver #look