“I don’t mean to imply that I successfully practice what I preach. I try, that’s all.” — Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17, the Paris Review (Spring-Summer 1957)
Tag: practice
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“To display moral qualities demands practice, just as much as intellectual and manual qualities.” — Robert Aickman, Growing Boys
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“We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.” — William Hazlitt, “On Prejudice”
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“If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.” — Elbert Hubbard, “The Better Part,” A message to Garcia and thirteen other things
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“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower, Address at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois (1956-09-25)
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“Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all practice. It’s the fellow who knows enough about practice to test his theories for blow-holes that gives the world a shove ahead.” — George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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”In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” — Benjamin Brewster, Theory and Practice, The Yale Literary Magazine (1882 February)
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