Practice Quotes - Page 45

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.

I just have to practice hard, get better, and go out there and win impressively - that's all it comes down to.

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed.

Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.

Not a game, not a game... practice.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

I learned to practice smiling when I'm feeling sad, you know?

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions.

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I now feel that smoking in moderation is a comfortable and laudable practice, and is productive of good. There is no more harm in a pipe than in a cup of tea. You may poison yourself by drinking too much green tea, and kill yourself by eating too many beefsteaks. For my part, I consider that tobacco, in moderation, is a sweetener and equalizer of the temper.

The benefits of knowledge can only be realized in practice.

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege dose not change the nature nor the seriousness of the practice. This woe is pronounced upon those who would pervert standards of mortality and decency. They seek man’s approval of that which God had condemned. They have been successful in getting legislation passed to make such perversion legal and acceptable by society.

In order to 'hold fast' to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.

Being able to recognize which of your desires are vital to pursue and which ones are not is often less than easy. This is precisely why the ancient sages counseled that we practice yoga. Their point was a very practical one: You are best able to discern which of your many desires should (and should not) be responded to when your mind is calm and tranquil.