Practice Quotes - Page 85

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

Practice with the obstacle, always with the obstacle, and seek combinations.

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

Family organisation is broken and young animals are increasingly being denied a mother to turn to for comfort and for grooming. One of the saddest and most pathetic of farm practices - inevitable at the present time for the supply of dairy produce - is the separation of the calf from the cow at birth or soon after.

One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.

Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life.

The best way to create spectacular results in the most important areas of your life is through daily practice

At the heart of that western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man...is the touchstone of value, and all society, all groups, and states, exist for that person's benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society.

Many people are blind to trust, not so much to its benefits as to its nature and the practices that make it possible.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."

You are what you practice most.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of “national economy” . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of “national economy” . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.

What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are not implemented. So there is a disconnect between rhetoric and practice.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.

I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.