Practitioner Quotes

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. (Charles Krauthammer)
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession. View quote
Anthony Trollope
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
What is a "heart of great forbearance?” As a practitioner, the first thing you should be able to do is to not fight back when you are beaten or sworn at-you must be tolerant. Otherwise, what kind of practitioner will you be? View quote
Li Hongzhi
As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger. View quote
Steven Seagal
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me. View quote
Ed Rollins
I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. View quote
Theodore Bikel
As well as campaigning for human rights, Menuhin was a keen yoga practitioner and health food enthusiast, warning against the dangers of white rice, white bread and red meat. He also spoke of the dangers of pollution long before environmentalism became a buzz word. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
The techniques of the practitioner are usually called 'synthetic'. He designs by organizing known principles and devices into larger systems. View quote
Herbert Simon
Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication. View quote
Bell hooks
As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time. (Joe Rogan)
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
Until such time that computers at least match human intelligence in every dimension, it will always remain possible for skeptics to say the glass is half empty. Every new achievement of AI can be dismissed by pointing out other goals that have not yet been accomplished. Indeed, this is the frustration of the AI practitioner: once an AI goal is achieved, it is no longer considered as falling within the realm of AI and become instead just a useful general technique. AI is thus often regarded as the set of problems that have not yet been solved. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
The following pages contain the result of my labours. They have been composed under circumstances particularly unfavourable to literary pursuits; and such as those only can duly appreciate, who are aware of the numerous and anxious duties, which a country practitioner is called upon to perform. View quote
Gideon Mantell
One hears murmurs against Mussolini on the ground that he is a desperado: the real objection to him is that he is a politician. Indeed, he is probably the most perfect specimen of the genus politician on view in the world today. His career has been impeccably classical. Beginning life as a ranting Socialist of the worst type, he abjured Socialism the moment he saw better opportunities for himself on the other side, and ever since then he has devoted himself gaudily to clapping Socialists in jail, filling them with castor oil, sending blacklegs to burn down their houses, and otherwise roughing them. Modern politics has produced no more adept practitioner. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example. View quote
Amory Lovins
It was a maxim with Mr. Brass that the habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense; and that, as that useful member ought never to grow rusty or creak in turning on its hinges in the case of a practitioner of the law, in whom it should be always glib and easy, he lost few opportunities of improving himself by the utterance of handsome speeches and eulogistic expressions. View quote
Charles Dickens
I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them. View quote
Ansel Adams
A general practitioner is a doctor who treats what you've got; a specialist is a doctor who finds you've got what he treats. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan. View quote
David Liss
Building an integrated, cost-effective, national health service that delivers quality care for all is one of the critical challenges facing anyone with a stake in global health. A mum doesn't divide the health of her family up into different bits when she goes to a health clinic: ‘vaccines', ‘malaria', ‘HIV'. For her a health centre is a health centre and a nurse is a nurse. When she goes to get help, she should receive integrated care for all her family's needs not just the one thing that centre, or health practitioner, happens to know about. We need to assign inefficient, parallel health interventions to the rubbish bin. (Jo Cox)
I'm an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It's an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner. View quote
Christine Feehan
I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. View quote
David Knopfler
After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. View quote
Dee Dee Myers
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades. View quote
Robert Jarvik