An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
I keep kosher, so I have an element of consumption awareness embedded into my daily life. One of the things the practice does is make one more mindful of - and grateful for - what goes into your body.
The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
When you practice yoga regularly, you get more then you will from jogging on the treadmill catching up on the last season of 'Lost.' When you practice yoga, you use your body and your mind, and you're gaining awareness and intuition.
Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
I got to go to practice one day, shoot around, and rebound for LeBron James. That was still an unreal experience.
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
It's a huge edge, sometime life-saving, to adopt a good idea early and put it into practice.
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
You address the respect issue in a team-meeting environment. With respect to its application, it's not just locker room. It's practice field. It's on and off the field. It's on Sunday, and it's on game days.
Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm's principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.
Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.
The more I practice the luckier I get.
