Practice Quotes
4199 quotes by 2432 authors
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It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such…
— John Quincy Adams
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All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have…
— Thomas Boswell
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I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape…
— Martha Graham
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With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.
— Paul Gauguin
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I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.
— Henri Rousseau
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If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and…
— Charles Kettering
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What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC…
— Pamela Anderson
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I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to…
— John C. Maxwell
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If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom immediately…
— Hakuin Ekaku
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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
— Dogen
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I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character…
— Joshua Reynolds
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If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get…
— Cennino Cennini
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Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have been which are…
— Joshua Reynolds
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In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may…
— Joshua Reynolds
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