Practice Quotes

Strange that theory and practice so seldom should accord.

For me, my yoga practice is like putting a one in front of a lot of zeros. Without my practice, everything quickly becomes chaotic.

I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.

It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.

Try your best not to get distracted from your goal. Let everything you do be your way of getting closer to your enlightenment; never take a vacation from spiritual practice.

There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.

I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.

Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

Unbinding the Heart really means to bring awareness to those areas we have restricted in our hearts and start to let go, open up, and practice staying open no matter what happens or doesn't happen.

You can push your local communities to adopt more sustainable sources of energy and environmentally-friendly practices.

Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.

There is nothing like practice.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.

We talkin' bout practice?

Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

Kant thinks of judgment as a special faculty or talent of the mind, not reducible to discursive reasoning but cultivated through experience and practice.

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

I dont make it a practice to respond to reports in the social media but occasionally it is necessary.

[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.

But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

I can cook a little bit but pretty much when I get back from practice I am pretty tired that I just order out.

We have some fast guys out there. It's always fun to compete with each other at practice in the outfield. It's going to be a fun year out there.

A yoga session is harder than a football practice easily for me. Probably in some ways just as intense, not from a physical standpoint of hitting ,but from a game, the intensity is the same.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

With fewer and fewer corporations controlling more and more of the world's trade, there is an ever greater need to know more about the practices of these large faceless organizations.

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

I practice self-love, give love, and surround myself with people who bring out the best in me.

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.

... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control.

I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's an ethos that is very sustaining.

If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.

You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.