Practice Quotes

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

Pre-suasion is the practice of getting people sympathetic to your message before they experience it.

I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.

The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.

Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.

Practice like good musician; draw every day.

Its never too late to take a moment to look.

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

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

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.

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.

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.

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

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.

Have "eternal wait," infinite patience. When you have infinite patience, you will realize God belongs to you. Either through awareness or through practice you reach the same spot.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.

The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

We have to practice to become perfect.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind of approach we use.

A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.

One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

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.

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.

Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

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.

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

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about.

Wrong is but falsehood put in 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.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.