Practice Quotes

Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by lying in bed for five minutes and mentally acknowledging what you are grateful for.

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Going for refuge to Buddha,Dharma, and Sangha means that we apply effort to receiving Buddha's blessings, to putting Dharma into practice, and to receiving help from Sangha.

If you cheat yourself in practice, you'll cheat yourself in a game; and if you cheat in a game, you'll cheat yourself for the rest of your life.

We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I'm going to get better that day.

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

I believe in the dignity of every person. I believe that while we are all free to practice our religion, and to hold whatever religious beliefs we choose.

One should practice much sense, not much learning.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

As sensitive and broad-minded humans, we must never allow ourselves to be in any way judgmental of the religious practices of other people, even when these people clearly are raving space loons.

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)

We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control.

Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.

To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.

"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable".

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.

Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.

The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.