#practicing

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #culture #earn #fact #his

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#any #country #democracy #either #foundation

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#away #begin #democracy #learn #ourselves

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books. ↗

— Travis Barker

#am #books #i #oh #practicing

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#based #christianity #christians #evidence #him

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#articles #criticizing #finally #i #listening

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#came #fast #i #i came #learn

I'm a natural piano player. So all the practicing I do at this point is in my head. If I don't play for a year, my chops aren't going to get any worse. I've spent my time playing scales, and I don't necessarily want to play any faster than I play. So everything I do at this point is more philosophical. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#chops #everything #faster #get #going

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#continuing #current #education #even #go

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#ever #get #going #i #just