Practice Quotes

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

No practice exists in isolation.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house.

As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.

So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.

Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable!

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.

The art of dressing is the art we all practice

Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

In England the practice of "virtual" representation provided reasonably well for the actual representation of the major interests of the society, and it raised no widespread objection.

I really think there's an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it's wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.

Doctors have an ethical duty to follow the practices and standards of care.

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.

If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

Theory is the practice of the impotent.

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.

Schedule in rest in any pursuit. There’s always another peak, but look back and admire the view for a moment. You have to actually practice that - it’s a balance.

There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.

How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.

It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.

The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

I'm interested in Buddhism. Of all the organized religions, that to me is the only one that makes even vague sense. I just don't have the discipline for that kind of practice.

Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.