Practice Quotes

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

. .the most crucial ingredient by far for success in music is . . .what happens in the practice room.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

When you get to practice against the best, it brings the best out of you.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law.

My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.

The most exciting thing in England is a pigeon or foxes, which isn't very interesting to watch because everyone knows what they do. But I've taken pictures of them. Just for practice.

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

If a man seriously proposes to go in for lifting heavy weights, he should make a point of practising certain lifts every day. This daily practice is essential to the achievement of any real success.

Look at people in your life as “practice.” The way you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there.

You have to learn to laugh all the time. It's a practice of life. It's a practice of happiness.

Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.

The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.

Writing is a skill, not a talent, and this difference is important because a skill can be improved by practice.

I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

Practice makes the master.

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

I have always wanted to live where one could practice (golf) shots in one's pajamas before breakfast.

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.

Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

Yoga is the practice of radical transformation

Practice being in the present. Do what you're doing 100%.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game.

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.

We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.