The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
What [Louis Armstrong] does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I recommend doing some sort of acting class, something that can eventually get you in front of an agent or a manager,… — Bridgit Mendler Copy Share Image
Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
I hate the word practice. Practice breeds inurement. Instead of discovering, of distinguishing traits that are deeply hidden or merely veiled, one… — Wanda Landowska Copy Share Image
When you make the decision to become a being of sharing, and practice keeping your thoughts harmonized with Spirit energy on a… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act.… — William L. Marcy Copy Share Image
“You do not say, “This is enlightenment,” or “That is not right practice.” Even in wrong practice, when you realize it and… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
The main argument is that capitalism is constituted by a varied of different practices, and so challenging capitalism needs to be about… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
I know sometimes when you get injured, a lot of the time you're in the training room. But getting out there on… — Jrue Holiday Copy Share Image
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours.… — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
If you know the music the moment the violin string begins to vibrate, then you know how to navigate through the forest… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
Every religion ... has rituals, practices, holy writings or traditions, etc. Nothing like that has ever developed from Atheism. There are no… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see… — David Bellos Copy Share Image
During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games,… — Pablo Sandoval Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice. — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, like most Americans, like most Republicans, believe in protecting America's core national interests. He believes as do I, as do… — Tom Cotton Copy Share Image
“If you put the time and work into getting better therefore that is called practice, anything that you practice you will definitely… — Alcurtis Turner Copy Share Image
We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice… — Peter Forsberg Copy Share Image
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics. — Aaron Baddeley Copy Share Image
The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
People assume that just because you get paid a lot of money and have a lot of attention that all of the… — Harrison Barnes Copy Share Image
The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts;… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language,… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image