Top 1200 Theory And Practice Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice.

Everything can look good in theory and in practice it all falls apart.

Have a good work ethic. You've got to practice, practice, practice. I'm not telling you what to practice - that's up to you.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

This question, Is loving your enemy a life practice?, I like that question. It is a life practice, certainly, for everyone. It relates to the idea of, Is this a householder practice or is it a monk practice? I think it's both. Everyone has that practice.

Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man who doesn't have strength can practice. Except lazy people; lazy people can't practice Ashtanga yoga.

Practice is a shared history of learning. Practice is conversational. 'Communities of Practice' are groups of people who share a concern (domain) or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better (practice) as they interact regularly (community).

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.

To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, one's initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.

There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you practice sharing? How do you practice daring? How do you practice being nonjudgmental?

That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we stop flinching, we practice overriding our Can't.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

After preliminary work by a number of other distinguished mathematicians and economists, game theory as a systematic theory started with von Neumann and Morgenstern's book, 'Theory of Games and Economic Behavior,' published in 1944.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

When I was in film school I was learning more theory than practice.

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice.... [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time, curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.

[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.

The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired.

Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is indeed merely "a theory", albeit one with ten billion times more credence than the theory of creationism - although, to be fair, the theory of creationism is more than just a theory. It's also a fairy story. And children love fairy stories, which is presumably why so many creationists are keen to have their whimsical gibberish taught in schools.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it gives no more than analogies, or metaphors, they do not realise that they are stating the proper aim of Catastrophe Theory, which is to classify all possible types of analogous situations.

Mental development must be connected with movement and be dependent on it. It is vital that educational theory and practice should be informed by that idea.

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.

It was hard to become an astronaut. Not anywhere near as much physical training as people imagine, but a lot of mental training, a lot of learning. You have to learn everything there is to know about the Space Shuttle and everything you are going to be doing, and everything you need to know if something goes wrong, and then once you have learned it all, you have to practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice until everything is second nature, so it's a very, very difficult training, and it takes years.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

The more evolutionary theory gets called an atheistic theory, the greater the risk that it will lose its place in public school biology courses in the United States. If the theory is thought of in this way, one should not be surprised if a judge at some point decides that teaching evolutionary theory violates the Constitutional principle of neutrality with respect to religion.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.

A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.

Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.

Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!

Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

In ancient cultures, they didn*t practice theory in their dances; they wanted to arrive at a state of trance, and I think that's an appropriate approach for the arts: to create a work that is entrancing.

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.