Practice Quotes - Page 31

There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important

If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions. The recommendation of a yoga practice follows the principle that through practice we can learn to stay present in every moment, and thereby achieve much that we were previously incapable of.

Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss.

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Strange is the man who practices his religion.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again.

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. Practice.

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse.

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.