Practice Quotes · Page 107

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Rehearsals and practice times by myself are like these little islands of 'Okay' in a vast sea of 'Holy Crap!”

— Jordan Sonnenblick

Only practice will not make perfect, but perfectly practice then will make perfect

— Hendra Hilman

My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.

— Elizabeth Diller

I want to relax for a while, maybe go back to my medical practice. I got a lot of old patients waiting…

— Tan Cheng Bock

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

— John W. Gardner

I think playing is the biggest thing for me. I don't think practice can help me.

— Dion Waiters

Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.

— Jennifer Carpenter

The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into…

— Hugh Prather

I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing…

— Aleister Crowley

Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to…

— Paul Laseau

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why…

— Stephen King

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn…

— Roscoe Mitchell

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a…

— John Berger

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant…

— Jose Marti

Ideas are abundant. Practice giving your ideas away. If you hold onto ideas too tightly, you can convince people (and yourself) that…

— Alex Bogusky

The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better…

— Leopold Auer

Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll…

— Waris Dirie

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our…

— Kerry Stokes

Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant…

— Kevin Maney

If the words of God are uttered merely as verbal expressions, and their message is not rooted in the virtuous way of…

— Maximus the Confessor

Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour…

— Henry David Thoreau

In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is…

— African Spir

For me, drag is about two things - confidence and glamour. Drag is about using artiface and illusion to tap into the…

— Violet Chachki

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

— Adrian Grenier

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

— Sharon Salzberg

Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.

— Cal Thomas

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

— Sam Keen

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

— Nhat Hanh

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

— Hannah Arendt

In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.

— Wilferd Peterson

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

— Sharon Salzberg

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good…

— Judy Blume

“Openness is like a sport, we need to practice it every day to get the best ability to be open to others’…

— A.A. Alebraheem

“Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.”

— Amit Kalantri

Benny [Goodman] used to practice 15 times more than the whole band combined.

— Harry James

At 16, I left school and started work as an intern in a local architect's practice.

— George Clarke

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

— Dani Shapiro

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

— Tony Dungy

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

— Isaac Hayes