Practice Quotes
4199 quotes by 2521 authors
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Okay, why don't we practice your talking with Marguerite? OUT LOUD. I'll be her." Julius stared at him blankly. "Now?" "No, I was thinking maybe…
— Lynsay Sands
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Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.
— Chris Wooding
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Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.
— Eckhart Tolle
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Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations…
— Paulo Coelho
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The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything -- a conversation, a…
— Megan McCafferty
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A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
— Sheri S. Tepper
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Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a…
— Nhat Hanh
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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.
— Sharon Salzberg
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I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I sat up in bed. "What did he say?" Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on the couch, his feet so far…
— Rick Riordan
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Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality…
— Iain Pears
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I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice
— Walter Scott
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Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.
— Gretchen Rubin
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... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll be speaking out…
— Waris Dirie
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The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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