Practice may refer to:
- Best practice
- Law firm, a legal practice
- Medical practice, a company which engages in the practise of medicine
- Phantom practice, phenomenon in which a person's abilities continue to improve, even without practising
- Practice (learning method), a method of learning by repetition
- Practice (social theory), a theoretical term for human action in society* Practice-based professional learning
- Practice of law
- Target practice, any exercise in which projectiles are fired at a specified target
- The Practice, a TV program about a legal practice
- Spiritual practice
- Standards and Practices, a conventional, traditional, or otherwise standardised method
Famous quotes containing the word practice:
“Know how to be content and you will never be disgraced; practice self-restraint and you will never be in danger.”
—Chinese proverb.
Laozi.
“Alas for the cripple Practice when it seeks to come up with the bird Theory, which flies before it. Try your design on the best school. The scholars are of all ages and temperaments and capacities. It is difficult to class them, some are too young, some are slow, some perverse. Each requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher, of a day of love and progress, is often closed at evening by despair.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea’s foot and marveling at a midge’s humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)