Practice Quotes

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

Any of the yoga poses could be substituted in this analogy. How you practice is much more meaningful than what yoga moves you can or cannot do.

Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.

We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.

Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.

I was never one of those kids that felt like I had to go to practice or that I was being made to go to practice or forced to play the game. Baseball was a natural fit for me.

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.

Practice being the kind of person you wish to attract.

Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar.

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort.

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

Yoga practice seems to be used to access some deeper dimension or some enlightened state. Understand right now there is no connection between flexibility and enlightenment.

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.

I've been meditating as part of my yoga practice for so long, I can't remember when I started.

Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.

My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"

If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it.

Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.

When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a place to discover that which is sacred.

Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.

I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.