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:
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“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)
“My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday’s washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on Monday morning, because the Sabbath was a day of rest—a practice that made my paternal grandfather, the village atheist, as mad as fire. Nevertheless, he willed five quid to the minister, just to be on the safe side.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)