Practice Quotes

Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.

There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

Practice with your fingers and you need all day. Practice with your mind and you will do as much in 1 1/2 hours.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

We must patiently practice every day.

To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

No one can give you magickal powers. You have to earn them. There is only one way to do this. Practice, practice, practice!

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

In theory, practice should work like theory. In practice, it doesn't.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

I practice in my head.

The more you practice what you know, the more shall you know what to practice.

Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.

Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.

Tennessee is a very country-type state. Maybe I can practice on some type of country-western dance where they'll know what I'm doing.

I want to play golf, practice and not do much else. I don't drink, I don't smoke and I hate going places where you have to yell at someone who is about a foot away from you.

I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until it can't go wrong.

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.