Practice Quotes

The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

What you practice on the mat is what you end up doing in your life.

I'm not a part of any organized practices, but I believe heavily on love and the universe and what you give is what you get.

I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

I'm spiritual but I don't practice any sort of thing.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Keep your practice very simple and don't be too ambitious.

As my lama always told me, I learned that I practice better when I'm by myself.

We have met with the dharma. Many of us have met with teachers. We do have some idea of what to do and how to practice. And we should not be lazy.

I don't think I've changed anything, but I hope that by my talks I have encouraged people in their practice. That's as much as any of us can do.

Tibetans are great with meritorious practices.

Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer obstacles? It's because of the lack of merit.

In Dharma practice, the most important thing is to be very sincere.

If you're born in the higher realms, then it's too pleasant, and you don't have any incentive to practice. If you're born in the lower realms, you don't have any opportunity to practice.

The very best players, when they are practicing, put everything they've got into it. But then they leave it for a while. And it's the same in dharma practice.

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down.

If I practice I'll really alienate people.

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author.

The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.

Generosity is only benevolence in practice.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.

Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

I'm not going to change my religious practice to get one vote, but I know how to take an oath and uphold the law, and if you elect me I will uphold the law.

If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.

You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn those things or you can't practice the art.

Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.

ISIS goes after any group that deviates from its extreme ideology, dissident Muslims, for example, or the Yazidis who practice an ancient religion distinct from both Islam and Christianity.

Well first of all, for a criminal practice there has to be a gun. It’s pretty simple.

There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice.

I'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.

There was nothing in the deal with Justice that would change Microsoft's business practices in any way.

For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

People are rewarded in public for what the practice for years in private.

Go off-road...Practice a little daring.