Practice Quotes · Page 54

Recent literature on transsexualism in the lesbian community draws connections with the practices of sadomasochism.

— Sheila Jeffreys

Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.

— Mooji

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

— Itzhak Perlman

The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.

— Sai Baba

This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy.

— Jaggi Vasudev

They say that nobody is perfect, then they say that practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

— Anonymous

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

— Brian Johnson

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

— Ellen Glasgow

When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to…

— Kehinde Wiley

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until…

— Eugene Field

“I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don’t arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation…

— Sylvia Boorstein

Yoga is really the practice of seeing what's most important. Focusing on that first. Then it helps everything else sort of fall…

— MC Yogi

Martial arts will always be a part of my life. I started when I was five, and if I don't open a…

— Tecia Torres

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom…

— Epictetus

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by…

— George Washington

If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those…

— Barack Obama

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always…

— Brett Hoebel

I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer…

— Thomas Beddoes

“Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that’s exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands…. Deliberate practice…

— Cal Newport

The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds…

— Rolf Potts

When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more…

— Gary Potter

It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and…

— Allen W. Wood

It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect,…

— Dharma Mittra

Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look…

— Nhat Hanh

When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The people who test your patience are a blessing.. Without them, you can't practice patience.

— Nouman Ali Khan

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

— Iain Banks

I'm very confident. I wouldn't go out on that practice field if I wasn't.

— Teddy Bridgewater

As far as practice, I get those mental reps. I don't have to physically be out there. It's just a mindset and…

— Julio Jones

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

— Dogen

If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

— Crazy Legs

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

— Anonymous

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

— Denis Waitley

We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

— Assata Shakur

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

— RuPaul

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

— Michael Parenti

“I have about as much practice sleeping as everyone else, though I’d like to have more.”

— Jarod Kintz

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

— Jack Kornfield

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

— Susan Sontag