Millions of Americans today are taking dietary supplements, practicing yoga and integrating other natural therapies into their lives. These are all preventive measures that will keep them out of the doctor’s office and drive down the costs of treating serious problems like heart disease and diabetes.
It wasn’t until last year that I figured out the problem: I just don’t love competitive golf. What I love is the game itself. I love being outdoors, practicing, and smelling the freshly cut grass at 6:00 a.m. as the sun rises. But I didn’t love travel, or pressure, or the mean-spiritedness of my competitors.
I remember I went to Pune and bought an old bike and modified it. After that I started learning to ride from a friend, practicing in my backyard.
There really is something raw about sexuality that’s real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But – we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex.
Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
I’m not a practicing Catholic now. I didn’t like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn’t say I’m not religious.
You think I can be the MVP without practicing?
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
Wrestling in general is a lot more Americanized, to use that term loosely. Back when I started, there were still a few people practicing that old-school British style. At the time, I didn’t want to do that. I wanted to wrestle like AJ Styles; I wanted to do flips and that sort of stuff, but I never really got it.
Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
Fight prep, boxing, cardio, stretching. It’s almost like dancing, you have to learn to dance and keep practicing it.
So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.
I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
I like practicing every day, you get better by practicing.
I have this habit of not rehearsing a lot; I don’t go on practicing my dialogues, pauses, and actions.
Luck does play a huge role in whatever field you’re practicing, whether that’s medicine, acting, singing; but the way you make luck work for you is you constantly put yourself in a position to get lucky.
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn’t take any practice.
Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.
There is a way to practice hard and be physical without pads. You can still be a physical football team and be efficient in practice without pads. The 49ers practiced like that for a long period of time in the 1980s under Bill Walsh and were extremely successful when all the other teams were practicing in pads.
I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents’ living room and my older brother’s practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz… a beautiful chaos.
I love practicing with the guys.
Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In my spare time, I usually go jogging around the Gelora Bung Karno stadium or head to the gym.
In my opinion, there’s nothing better than practicing a play all week and then going on the field and thinking, ‘This is going to be a touchdown.’
I don’t spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.
When I’m practicing, I think I’m pretty focused, and I spend a lot of energy on making sure I get better, but once I’m outside the rink, I think, like anyone else, I like to enjoy everything that everyone else does.
I am good at composing but I try to write lyrics. I am too bad at that. I am still trying. You become good after practicing and I am doing that.
I’ve been practicing Buddhism for a while. So, I call myself a Jew-Bu, because my tribe is still Jew. But my philosophy and my practice is really Buddhist.
I am a practicing Catholic, not an evangelical Christian, but in 2016 I stood with millions of evangelicals who decided that Donald Trump would be the best person to fight for our religious liberty.
Obama spent the first two years of his administration practicing political unilateral disarmament.
I think that New York is the city of all cities. There is so much diversity there. I also like that when I go there, I can catch a play or musical and see some of the most talented people practicing their craft.
I didn’t want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn’t like me. So I never practiced.
I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.
All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.
As far as practicing is concerned, I usually try to do one to two hours a day. It isn’t good to practice too much, or your playing becomes too mechanical.
For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I’m grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
My family didn’t have very much money, so ballet wasn’t even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it.
The first time I heard a professional jazz quartet practicing in a house down the street it was almost like an out-of-body experience.
When I’m not at the keyboard, I’m generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
I have a J.D., but I’m not a practicing attorney as far as entertainment law goes.
I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn’t want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.
Would I be happy just practicing law? No. Would I be happy just doing TV and speeches? No. I want to do all of these things and be as active as I can… but my main goal is to have some degree of influence on the public discussion.
Now that I’m a dad, I’m practicing what I call ‘one- handed cooking,’ because I’ve got something more important in my other arm. I’m whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets.
It is 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.
If you want to become physically stronger, you’ll need healthy habits – like going to the gym. You’ll also have to give up unhealthy habits – like eating junk food. Building mental strength requires healthy habits – like practicing gratitude – while also giving up unhealthy behavior, like giving up after the first failure.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
I think of our YouTube experience very much like a gym. We were practicing and getting stronger with each rep.
In voiceover, all you have to worry about is your voice and practicing with your voice and then being able to understand what the situation and whatnot is happening. And you have endless amounts of film to perfect the character.
I think I know now that you can’t do this sort of climbing and have a domestic side. You’re not a practicing father if you’re not there. You’re maybe a visiting father.
I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.
In New England we get awful weather and it’s cold. You definitely appreciate the times where you aren’t freezing your butt off, because we are always outside practicing and playing. It’s nice to not have to bundle up to play.
A typical practice consists of practicing every event for about an hour. A lot of people assume I have private coaching, but I work out with 13 other girls at the gym!
Another thing that’s quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you’ve written the next morning and you think you didn’t get it quite right, you can fix it.
It’s very hard to be a practicing Christian in the 21st-century world if you set things up as, ‘Everyone is against us. You can’t believe modern science, modern media or modern political institutions because they’re all conspiring against Christians.’
Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.
When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.
No, my dance moves are always working no matter where I am. Whether at the house or if I’m out, at the facility working out, practicing, you gotta get the dance moves right. They help out with your footwork.
