Practice Quotes · Page 61

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

— Albert Camus

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

— Bodhidharma

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

— Richard Pascale

The most powerful benefits of meditation come from having a regular, daily practice.

— Deepak Chopra

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

— Sivananda

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

— Zooey Deschanel

Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The…

— Karen Finerman

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the…

— Thomas Boswell

My life's pretty simple. Look at hours and hours of film to try to find some things that will work on Saturday.…

— Mike Leach

Never forget how swiftly this life will be over, like a flash of summer lightning or the wave of a hand. Now…

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life,…

— Pema Chodron

When we give up our goals and concentrate diligently on the practices of our lives, we increase self-mastery and move toward the…

— Gerald Epstein

“Practice is what tests your resolve, what forces you to hone your abilities long after the spark has faded. Are you committed…

— Jeff Goins

The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as…

— Markus Zusak

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But…

— Mary Lou Retton

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our…

— Mitch McConnell

"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since…

— Susie Bright

The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time…

— James Bryce

I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We…

— Mark Nepo

The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and…

— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the…

— Lewis Carroll

While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the…

— George Packer

Purchasing a story in order to bury it is a practice that many in the tabloid industry call 'catch and kill.'

— Ronan Farrow

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

— Tony Robbins

“Like the tiny droplets of water make the huge ocean!, similarly little daily doses of practice will take you to greater glories.”

— Tina Sequeira

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

— Blaise Pascal

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

— Bill Bradley

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

— Swami Vivekananda

Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

— Dalai Lama

It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

— Gregory of Nazianzus

We really practice music and work really hard. Sometimes we'll leave at six in the morning, and we started at three the…

— Trombone Shorty

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

— Sylvia Boorstein

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

— Gail Godwin

Do one thing every day that scares you. Taking risks takes practice.

— Anonymous

Make it a practice to kick yourself for every time you answer your children with the words NOT RIGHT NOW.

— Wes Fesler

The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

— Sivananda

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

— Malcolm Gladwell

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

— Lauryn Hill