Practice Quotes

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.

I started thinking of digital imaging, not photography, in 1994 as it seemed the most appropriate way to deal with ideas of biotechnology and advertising. My practice is conceptual.

When I was taking my canoeing lessons I was given this oar to practice with, and I decided to have everyone sign it. All the cast and crew signed it and now I'm going to frame it.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

He who seeks fame by the practice of virtue asks only for what he deserves.

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies.

The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

Determination. You have to be willing to put in the extra time and the extra practice to be the best.

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Condition comes from hard work during practice and proper mental and moral conduct between practices.

Remember your six P's - Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do not practice immediately before the tournament.

Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.

The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

I always practice as I intend to play.

That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.

Practice as if its competition, but compete as if its practice.

My practice schedule is not constant and changes a lot and depends on my moods also.

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

We become just by the practice of just actions.

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.