Practice Quotes

Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

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.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

You are what you practice most.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

If we practice mindfulness, we always have a place to be when we are afraid.

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.

Im wearing an outfit that looks just like a cupcake ... a pink frothy blouse, low cut ... everything a little inappropriately girlie ... Pink, pink, lot of pink, ... Out of Practice.

Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.

Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.

As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.

All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.

It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.

I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.

In the practice of any craft, we are less concerned with the quantity of the product than with its quality, and less concerned with the product than with the artisan.

My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.

I was so anxious to succeed that I made a practice of appearing on all the disc jockey shows I could, in order to publicize the band.

Every practice, every film session, every game will help our chemistry.

I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.