Practice Quotes
4199 quotes by 2432 authors
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Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
— Sharon Salzberg
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Cookie dropped her purse and tried to catch it midair. In the process, she knocked over a vase. When she lunged for the vase, she…
— Darynda Jones
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Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in…
— Sharon Salzberg
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... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.
— Shannon Hale
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Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as…
— Ann Brashares
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I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.
— Michael Jordan
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[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
— Sharon Salzberg
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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
— Sharon Salzberg
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Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is…
— Patricia Polacco
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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated…
— Virginia Woolf
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Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may…
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't…
— Bill Bryson
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Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in…
— Mia Hamm
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Surely you’re not going to practice discretion now?
— Nalini Singh
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Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain…
— Dorothy Parker
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
— Tom Stoppard
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To become really good at anything,you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive
— Paulo Coelho
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I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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