I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.
There is false humility and genuine humility and between them, there is a desire of the practitioner to become humble.
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.
It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.
Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.
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.
The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.
Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner. . . it pays to be an expert.
If a person does not harm any living being. . . and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner
We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.
If you're looking to grow your business then Kate Beeders is the practitioner for you
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts.
As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.
