#practiced

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

— Paul McCartney

#i #instrument #practiced #singer #without

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

— Walter Wager

#first #i #law #never #passed

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#actions #attitude #much #practiced #words

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#avoided #been #both #both sides #condition

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#air force #any #assignment #avoid #being

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#american #beginner #clarke #closely #drummers

I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority. ↗

— Tony Brown

#academics #always #been #believer #conflict

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#day #done #ever #every #every day

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#before #eating #getting #go #going