Practice Quotes · Page 92

If we want spiritual development, the practice of patience is essential.

— Dalai Lama

Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

— Jack Kornfield

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

— Nadia Boulanger

Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice.

— Harry Blackstone, Jr

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

— Homer

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

— George Leonard

That's what a professional does, focuses every week, every practice, every play, every game, every ounce of energy you have.

— Jim Harbaugh

To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series…

— Alistair Cooke

Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer…

— Tenzin Palmo

The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month…

— Larry Rosenberg

I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity…

— Benjamin Franklin

Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints…

— Joko Beck

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking…

— Ramana Maharshi

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect…

— Frederick Douglass

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to…

— Esperanza Spalding

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live…

— Martha Graham

There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a…

— Michael Jordan

Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have…

— Joshua Reynolds

Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep…

— Margaret Thatcher

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage…

— Azar Nafisi

It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the…

— Roger Kimball

'Ornithologists concluded that migratory birds take hundreds of naps as they fly; they also practice unilateral eye closure, in which one eye…

— Bill Jay

Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths…

— Henry David Thoreau

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice…

— Joseph Jarman

Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

— Abhinav Bindra

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet…

— Edmund Burke

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

— Confucius

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

— Mark Twain

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

— Sting

I learned to be more flexible offensively, to not talk as much in practice.

— Kelvin Sampson

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

— Ignazio Silone

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" -…

— Esperanza Spalding

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

— Joko Beck

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

— Kobe Bryant

While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

— Victor Koo

It's amazing how the same pace in practice can feel so much harder than on race day. Stay confident. Trust the process.

— Sara Hall

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

— Epictetus

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

— Adam Levine

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

— Philippe Petit