Practice Quotes · Page 76

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

— John Ruskin

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

— LeBron James

If you practice a little jnana yoga in your daily life, it will help you tremendously.

— Frederick Lenz

As a veterinarian and lover of animals, I feel the time is now to stop the practice of horse soring for good.

— Ted Yoho

“All it takes is the practice of opening up your bodies to the light.7”

— Lee Vickers

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

— Lauryn Hill

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put…

— Vance Havner

Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.

— James L. Farmer, Jr

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice…

— William C. Brown

There is no such thing as a Fourth Industrial Revolution with 9 billion thriving co-citizens in the world if it is accomplished…

— Johan Rockstrom

Let him go, Julian. His entire body isn’t worth one molecule of yours. (Grace) (To Paul) Where I come from, we butchered…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon…

— Maria Monk

If you set out in a spaceship to find the one planet in the galaxy that has life, the odds against your…

— Richard Dawkins

I practice kickboxing and Muay Thai right now, like, come on, I'll take anyone on in the ring. You can punch me…

— Mardy Fish

I was never the most technical wrestler. But my coaches definitely instilled in me the belief that if you can push yourself…

— Tim Ferriss

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with…

— Frederick Lenz

This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing…

— William J. Clinton

“No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or…

— Anonymous

I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco…

— Thomas Huxley

If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it.…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our…

— Anonymous

The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets…

— Sharon Salzberg

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to…

— Leslie Bibb

To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.

— Seve Ballesteros

My life became occupied with only a couple of things: go to the stadium and practice, come back home, eat, then go…

— Neeraj Chopra

“amateurs practice till they get it right, professionals practice till they don't get it wrong.”

— Richard Crittenden

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

— Edward Abbey

If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player…

— Bear Bryant

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around…

— Kevin O'Leary

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

— George Orwell

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

— Robert Edmond Jones

“As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.”

— Agnes Sanford

I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.

— Rocco DiSpirito

“We enter a discipline like Zen practice so that we can learn to live in a sane way.”

— Charlotte Joko Beck

He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

— Chanakya

Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.

— Jack Canfield

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

— Payne Stewart

Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves.

— Jean Smith

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe