I fear not the man who has practiced 10 000 kicks once but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10 000 times.
I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
My grandfather along with Carnegie was a pioneer in philanthropy which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
Its attitude which it has preached and practiced is skepticism. Now it finds the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet how amazing is it nothing is less practiced?