Top 1200 Practice Makes Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.

Vocally, I don't think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely.

The genius of Freemasonry is not our Masonic buildings and temples or the trappings of our organizations. It is not our great charities or community activities. It is not our beautiful rituals or their teachings! It is the 'practice of Freemasonry' by the Freemasons. Yet we cannot practice that which we do not know or understand. Thus Masonic education is the foundation for our Fraternity. Brother Carl H. Claudy in The Master's Book says, '.. one thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Brigan)

Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.

Someone who just has a really good heart - it's so attractive: someone who makes you feel beautiful and encourages you - makes you better.

How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved.

I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus and be 100%. I took that work ethic into the NFL and everyday I always gave 100% and never wanted anything to be handed to me. I wanted to earn it. And every time I stepped on that football field during practice I wanted to leave that football field with learning something about what the practice was about for me that day...

I'm always either listening to 'Hamilton,' which makes me cry, or Giggs, who makes me laugh.

Waiting makes wine better; but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!

It makes it easier for you to play more often and it makes it easier for the manager if he has players who can be used in different positions.

It's always nice, no matter what style of music, as long as it's grooving and you feel that, I feel that's what makes... part of what makes a great song, for sure.

Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I, like probably a lot of people, burn out every once in a while. What I have learned from my own experience is that there are two reasons for it to happen. It is that I am either physically tired or mentally tired. If either of these are the case, the wisest decision is to blow off practice. Blowing off practice is healthy. I didn't understand that until I was so burnt out that I wanted to make scrap material out of my single and my oars.

My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

My work is myself. That's what makes me feel like I have purpose. It makes me happy and inspired and hopeful - as hard as it may be sometimes.

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.

Faith in Christ makes one a regenerated believer; obedience to the Holy Spirit makes him a spiritual believer.

The idea of MPs texting and emailing through debates makes my gorge rise, as it does when a minicab driver makes phone calls at the wheel. I'm not paying you to keep in touch with your mates!

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.

With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that.

I believe that attributing flaws to medical characters makes them not just doctors but something more. It makes them people.

Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people.

I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

Sincerity with innocence, though cute, though it makes good movies, makes for very bad government.

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed.

You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.

What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Whether I'm trying to or not, I have this inherent feeling that music is uplifting; it makes you feel victorious, and that makes you feel like you can take on the world.

Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.

The beauty of love, as far as I'm concerned, is it makes you better. It makes you stronger. It gives you direction. It gives you understanding of what life is and what we've been given.

It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes you flourish. Then everything that you step into turns into your garden.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

Education is a daily growth. It's not about the degrees but about the kind of person it makes one. I feel it makes a human being complete.

I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

Everybody wanted to make it. One guy makes it. In a family when one guy makes it... 'Hey ain't you going to help us out?'

Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread, simply because he makes me see the possibilities and makes me feel like writing. There are certain writers who put you in the mood to write. In the way a whiff of a cigar will bring back memories of a ballgame on a Saturday afternoon, reading Salinger makes me want to get to the typewriter.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.

Marijuana makes the best bio-diesel fuel on the planet, so it can make you energy. It grows 15 feet a summer, so it's a renewable resource. It makes better paper than wood does. It makes clothing. Medical-wise, it's stopping seizures, it's working for post-traumatic stress, they're even finding that it's curing cancer in certain cases. I mean, this is a remarkable plant. Now, for those that smoke it recreationally, to feel good, what's wrong with that? That's mental health.