Practice Quotes · Page 150

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the…

— Norman Vincent Peale

I used to be very revenge-motivated, but that's just because I'm a Scorpio. Now I'm more so, like, practice honesty just because…

— SZA

Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and…

— Nhat Hanh

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, study the actions of the masters- penetrate deeply into a single form…

— Dōgen

Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in…

— Peter Thiel

Yoga means to bind back, unite. To bring the body and the soul together. For this reason the practice of yoga is…

— Alice Walker

Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and…

— Sue Gunter

“deliberate practice” to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an “activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the…

— Cal Newport

Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have…

— Irwin Redlener

If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that…

— Mark Dever

It is not your role to make others happy, it is your role to keep yourself in balance. When you pay attention…

— Esther Hicks

Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would…

— Marin Mersenne

Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a…

— Dogen

This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem…

— Don Paterson

One study on the treatment of asthma patients conducted by researchers John Goyeche, Dr. Ago, and Dr. Ikemi, suggests that any effective…

— Donna Farhi

We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in…

— Dan Marino

I go into the local chemist, and I can hear people saying, 'Oh my Gaaahd - it's Lisa Kudrow!' And there's a…

— Amanda Foreman

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and…

— Octavia Butler

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or…

— Eugenia Price

Today we can see many different forms of Buddhism, such as Zen and Theravada Buddhism. All these different aspects are practices of…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep…

— Vivian Gornick

If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only…

— Dalai Lama

“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means…

— H. L. Mencken

The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This…

— Tim Ward

Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent…

— William Hazlitt

Every day of my life has been a challenge - from singing a song that is not my type to being asked…

— Asha Bhosle

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two…

— Meredith Monk

Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and…

— A. G. Mohan

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in…

— Fred Rogers

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever…

— Michael Emerson

Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through…

— Mike Love

The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the…

— George Washington

Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it…

— Richard Pascale

Maybe Bill Maher should just practice his monologue a few times before the show, so he wouldn't find it so hilarious. But…

— Andy Kindler

Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that…

— Geeta Iyengar

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight…

— Zoe Saldana

The pace at which fundamental discoveries of basic science are being uncovered is accelerating, as is the speed at which medical practice…

— Scott Gottlieb

With all the travelling and performing I've been doing, it's hard to find time to practice! But seriously, I probably did most…

— McCoy Tyner

Having started my career at EPA, having worked on the Hill for two different members who didn't agree on every issue, and…

— Andrew R. Wheeler