Practise Quotes

124 quotes by 113 authors

Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which… — Patrick Duffy
The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and… — Alan Bennett
Everyone in your life is a 'practise person.' How you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself. — Susan Jeffers
From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really,… — Jimmy Connors
To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently,… — Emmet Fox
There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up… — Kenneth E. Boulding
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance. — H. L. Mencken
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise. — B.K.S. Iyengar
The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all… — Leonardo da Vinci
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't… — Mary Astell
He who is a beginner on the way must not be brought to practise the commandments by kindness alone, but must more often be induced… — Maximus the Confessor
Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this… — Johannes Tauler
My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice… — Beverly Cleary
I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation. — Simon Callow
Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise. — Jay Griffiths
The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the… — Harry Gordon Johnson
If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski
But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy. — Pierre Laval

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