Practice Quotes

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, pilates or meditation.

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Practice with the obstacle, always with the obstacle, and seek combinations.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

It's a lot of fun coming out for a practice round and having the crowd behind you and cheering you on (a few) days before the event.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proved to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.

One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

Practice the healing power of the compassionate mind.

It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.

The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

The real work is in the practice.

Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush.

But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.

It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

If you refuse to change your job (if you don't like it), the only sensible thing you can do is practice loving it every day.

The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order.

The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

Practice makes permanent.

I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.