Quotes and Sayings About Practice
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Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'
-- A. E. Waite -
According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.
-- A. G. Mohan -
Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.
-- A. G. Mohan -
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To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
-- A. H. AlmaasSource : A. H. Almaas (2000). “The Point of Existence: Transformations of Narcissism in Self-Realization”, p.29, Shambhala Publications
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Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.
-- Aaron Baddeley -
Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.
-- Abhinav Bindra -
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
-- Ace FrehleySource : "KISS's Ace Frehley Tells All (Or Some?) in Advance of Upcoming Memoir". Interview with Jaan Uhelszki, www.themortonreport.com. August 05, 2011.
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All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
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.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
-- Adam Levine -
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The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.
-- Adam Werbach -
No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.
-- Adele Scheele -
It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.
-- Adolf Anderssen -
I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to her . . . the practice of abortion shall be exterminated with a strong hand.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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I dedicate myself and work hard in the weight room and treat every practice as if it were a game.
-- Adrian Peterson -
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
-- Adyashanti -
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.
-- African Spir -
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
-- Agnes de Mille -
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When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.
-- Agnieszka Radwanska -
Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
-- Ahmad Jamal -
Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.
-- Aida Overton Walker -
To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind.
-- Ajahn Chah -
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way. If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
-- Ajahn Chah -
All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much. Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won't regret it.
-- Ajahn Chah -
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.
-- Ajahn Chah -
To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
-- Ajahn Chah -
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A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
-- Ajahn Chah -
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
-- Ajahn Chah