{"quotes":[{"text":"For too long nurses have been undervalued, restricted in what they could do, with too few career opportunities in clinical practice. For far too long, nurses have endured a pay system that has held them back - both professionally as well as financially.","author":"John Hutton","tags":["opportunities","practice "],"id":199,"author_id":"John+Hutton"},{"text":"BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? \u2028\u2028DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros? \u2028\u2028BERENGER: Yes, but for a man to turn into a rhinoceros is abnormal beyond question. \u2028\u2028DUDARD: Well, of course, that's a matter of opinion ... \u2028\u2028BERENGER: It is beyond question, absolutely beyond question! \u2028DUDARD: You seem very sure of yourself. Who can say where the normal stops and the abnormal begins? Can you personally define these conceptions of normality and abnormality? Nobody has solved this problem yet, either medically or philosophically. You ought to know that. \u2028\u2028BERENGER: The problem may not be resolved philosophically -- but in practice it's simple. They may prove there's no such thing as movement ... And then you start walking ... [he starts walking up and down the room] ... And you go on walking, and you say to yourself, like Galileo, 'E pur si muove' ... \u2028\u2028DUDARD: You're getting things all mixed up! Don't confuse the issue. In Galileo's case it was the opposite: theoretic and scientific thought proving itself superior to mass opinion and dogmatism. \u2028\u2028BERENGER: [quite lost] What does all that mean? Mass opinion, dogmatism -- they're just words! I may be mixing everything up in my head but you're losing yours. You don't know what's normal and what isn't any more. I couldn't care less about Galileo ... I don't give a damn about Galileo. \u2028\u2028DUDARD: You brought him up in the first place and raised the whole question, saying that practice always had the last word. Maybe it does, but only when it proceeds from theory! The history of thought and science proves that. BERENGER: [more and more furious] It doesn't prove anything of the sort! It's all gibberish, utter lunacy! \u2028\u2028DUDARD: There again we need to define exactly what we mean by lunacy ... \u2028\u2028BERENGER: Lunacy is lunacy and that's all there is to it! Everybody knows what lunacy is. And what about the rhinoceroses -- are they practice or are they theory?","author":"Eugène Ionesco","tags":["absurd","mass-opinion","practice","theory","truth"],"id":925,"author_id":"Eug%C3%A8ne+Ionesco"},{"text":"When we find ourselves in a situation in which our buttons are being pushed, we can choose to repress or act out, or we can choose to practice. If we can start to do the exchange, breathing in with the intention of keeping our hearts open to the embarrassment or fear or anger that we feel, then to our surprise we find that we are also open to what the other person is feeling. Open heart is open heart.","author":"Chögyam Trungpa","tags":["anger","emotions","fear","practice"],"id":3481,"author_id":"Ch%C3%B6gyam+Trungpa"},{"text":"Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.","author":"Franz Bardon","tags":["magic","practice","work"],"id":4607,"author_id":"Franz+Bardon"},{"text":"We cannot make good news out of bad practice.","author":"Edward R. Murrow","tags":["practice","news","good news "],"id":7861,"author_id":"Edward+R.+Murrow"},{"text":"His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided a pulse, gave order to vast incomprehension. Later he found other ways.","author":"Carol Shields","tags":["discipline","practice","ritual","work"],"id":7947,"author_id":"Carol+Shields"},{"text":"With practice, you build the road to accomplish your goals. Excellence lives in attention to detail. Give your all, all the time. Don't save anything for the walk home.","author":"Ethan Hawke","tags":["discipline","practice"],"id":8811,"author_id":"Ethan+Hawke"},{"text":"Good form without knowing it is the best form of all.","author":"J.M. Barrie","tags":["culture","habit","parenthood","practice"],"id":11000,"author_id":"J.M.+Barrie"},{"text":"I made the valuable discovery that practicing wasn't a matter of time at all. It was a matter of intensity. Five minutes spent working consciously and hard at the elimination of an error, was worth five hours just playing away ignoring errors as if they hadn't happened.","author":"Leonard Wibberley","tags":["life","music","practice","skills","violin"],"id":11846,"author_id":"Leonard+Wibberley"},{"text":"I had kind of a mean piano teacher. I went to Catholic school, so it was like the typical thing you would imagine - a little kid with a white-haired teacher frowning at the fact that I didn't practice.","author":"Chris Cornell","tags":["school","practice","you "],"id":16714,"author_id":"Chris+Cornell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":373,"pages":38,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}