I grew up in - I personally grew up in a gun culture. I grew up in upstate New York where most… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She… — Ashley Wagner Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know… — William Osler Copy Share Image
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Virtues are habits of mind, heart, and behavior. They develop through deliberate practice. Forming of a persons character lies in their own… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge . The management science team can properly analyse… — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling; and your leg is burning; and it feels impossible to maintain any sort… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the… — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Life creeps slowly upward… When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood… — Jack London Copy Share Image
After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“One may practice zazen for twenty, thirty, even fifty years, and go through failures and frustrations, but every defeat and time of… — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice.… — Frank Robinson Copy Share Image
Lewis sought no disciples, nor does he offer a program or solution, rather his contribution is a critical discipline. Lewis is a… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
If you have an intuition of something but no hard evidence to back it up, you might kind of sort of go… — Daryl Morey Copy Share Image
of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Schedule in rest in any pursuit. There’s always another peak, but look back and admire the view for a moment. You have… — Christy Haubegger Copy Share Image
I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to her... Nazi ideals demand that the practice of abortion… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time.… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense.… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Practice what you preach. Don't be a staggering image of the same shame you place upon others. Live, love, be free. Most… — LaNina King Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul. ... — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
