Practice Quotes
Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.
My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself
The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.
Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.
It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.
You're a terrible cook, Daniel." "I know," he replied, "But it's the effort that counts." "I hope that's not the slogan for your dental practice.
I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam.
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.
God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice; and has given them no other Means for this, but the Use of Reason.
I remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice.
I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.
Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into action by being of service to others.
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.
It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.
We have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp.
With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.
Part of the NAFTA legislation required studies of labor practices, and there was quite a good study that came out by a labor historian on the use of NAFTA to undermine and destroy unions.
Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.
I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.
To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.
Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment.
It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.
If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.
...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.
So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.
Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
The "outside" constitutes the horizon of meaning and the vital energy of our practice and thought.
You must spend time every day, even if it is just a few minutes, in practice of creative envisioning.
I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.
Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them.
You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.
The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.