Practice Quotes
I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.
I try to be consistent, so I practice yoga and Pilates to help keep my body and mind balanced.
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.
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
I think that business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" pinciples, qualities like love, care, and intuition.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.
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.
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.
For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become completely absorbed, then the transformation will occur.
Moms are as relenless as the tides. They don't just drive as to practice, they drive us to greatness
Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
You want to be free as the ego, but you need to be free FROM the ego. To be free from it is to understand its unreality.
He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.
Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.
Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.
It is not the hours of practice that matter...it's what you put into the hours that counts.
My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.
Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.
The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life
Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.
