There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent… — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions… — Paul Brunton 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 best way I have found to follow my true desires is to pay attention to my intuitive sense. We all have… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I remember I used to hide under the bed sometimes because I didn't want to go to… — Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Copy Share Image
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Perhaps Westerners are in a better position to practice true renunciation than uneducated Orientals because most Western people, by the time they… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
A practice that is suitable for one person is not necessarily suitable for someone else, and a practice that is appropriate for… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We have a huge game coming up in semi-finals. Just studying Finland or the Americans, whoever we're playing. Just moving forward, working… — Gillian Apps Copy Share Image
I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No matter where you're from, no matter what religion you practice, your ethnicity, race, or anything else - what is it that… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
The usual practice just isn't enough. I want more edge over my opponents. Cross-training is so important. I can improve myself and… — Blake Griffin Copy Share Image
The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your… — Cyndi Lee Copy Share Image
For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I make sure I take every rep seriously. In the meeting room, take as many notes as I can. Pay attention to… — Sony Michel Copy Share Image
I didn't have a lot of arms, weapons, to win when we were really young, like 9, 10 years. I didn't have… — Daniil Medvedev Copy Share Image
Building a practice of gratitude is the best way I know to create an optimistic approach to life. Start each day by… — Silken Laumann Copy Share Image
“Just like learning any new skill, practice and repetition is necessary to become competent and to reap the full benefits of yoga… — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military… — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
Good practice, everyone," Rusty said at last. "Light on the actual learning, heavy on the emotional catharsis, and thanks to Jared I… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Every successful sports season I had included detailed daily itineraries. We received one in the morning and one before practice, and they… — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
In season, and on game days, you are so used to shoot-around, going back home to eat lunch and sleep and then… — Nikola Vucevic Copy Share Image
Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
