Practise Quotes

I nearly killed myself in rehearsals, but the outcome is classy, I hope. It`s a lot different from any other videos I`ve done before. I really wanted to do some ballet in my next video and luckily I`ve been able to. I normally have three or four hours to practise the choreography for my clips, but this time I had four days to get it right. (on her music video Chocolate)

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.

The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

It`s taken a lot of work. I`ve practised very hard the last few months, and I`m pretty happy to see the results so fast. Now I`m going to practise even harder to continue to improve my game.

Zero tolerance is exactly what we practise and a three-match ban on top of an automatic one-game suspension is a clear sign that this kind of behaviour is not tolerated. That`s why we introduced a five-match guideline for physical assault of an official, but we did not consider this to be in that category.

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach­ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem­bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub­ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.