Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donnie Henderson

Our practice tempo was probably a little different than what we've seen.

B. F. Skinner

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

B. F. Skinner

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

Bill Crawford

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

Bill Bryson

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

Bernard Arnault

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Antoine Rivarol

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Frank Scelfo

I think there's more of a sense of urgency. We saw it in practice on Tuesday.

Aristotle

The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction

Dan Millman

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Donald Byrd

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

E. B. White

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Delmore Schwartz

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

Leonhard Euler

Now I will have less distraction.

Marilyn Manson

Watching movies is my one distraction.

Nik Wallenda

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Bodhidharma

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Bodhidharma

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

Joseph Jarman

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.

Nisha Singhania

The relationship with the husband used to be one of awe. Now, women want a partner and a relationship of equals. They want to marry a man like Greg of Dharma and Greg or Chandler of Friends.

Robert M. Pirsig

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.