Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
One of the most useful parts of my education as a writer was the practice of reading a writer straight through -… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Change masters are - literally - the right people in the right place at the right time. The right people are the… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people's mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one's own… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Learning to say prayers in a foreign language...is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
The main objection to the 'scientistic' claim that physics describes the world as it is in itself is that you 'can't weed… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as… — Johnny Bench Copy Share Image
Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's a practice for me every day, sometimes every hour of every day. It is an absolute practice. When I went into… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
Virtue is the panacea for both body and mind. The virtuous person can be both healthy and happy. How is virtue to… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
It's never the practice to shoot the scenes in the proper order. Sometimes you shoot the final scenes of a film before… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Everybody's always asking me: 'What's it like playing with LeBron?' It's really hard to describe. I'm pretty fortunate that I got him… — Joe Harris Copy Share Image
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Here, the certain temple rule, this seems to me to have a certain responsibility to look after the well-being of society and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others. . . . If… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Obama microtargeted his way to re-election by pitting Americans against each other in many instances. In order to confront the challenges the… — Kevin Madden Copy Share Image
Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices… — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
I always try to find better ways to do things. Whether it's a game plan, a practice, a meeting, an interview, whatever… — Lane Kiffin Copy Share Image
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
[The Massachusetts constitution] resembles the federal Constitution of 1787 more closely than any of the other revolutionary state constitutions. It was also… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations..., by large law firms...on more than… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
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