Practises Quotes

#1. The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.

Louis MacNeice

#2. God stipulates in the Bible that Jesus Followers are to love and serve everyone regardless of their faith or lack of it. But, this does not require us to honour and respect their Biblically-heinous cultural practises like multiculturalism does!

Gary Patton

#3. Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life, and he gets free access to the Divine.

Sri Chinmoy

#4. In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.

Lynne Truss

#5. For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.

David Travis

#6. We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.

Epictetus

#7. The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

Ajahn Chah

#8. The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.

Louis MacNeice

#9. In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

Marc Levine

#10. Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.

Sathya Sai Baba

#11. Deception, you see, lies at the heart of business, politics and war. Even pleasure, wouldn't you say? Everyone practises it, from the President of China to the whores on Lockhart Road.

Michael Wreford

#12. A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

Friedrich Schiller

#13. The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.

Orison Swett Marden

#14. We're not the millionaires that people think when they see busses.

Josh Silver

#15. I'm not actually an arrogant guy. It's just that, truthfully, nobody else can really compare to me.

Zach Braff

#16. Dunnottar? Edward? Dear God! She hadn't merely traveled through time - she'd been dropped smack into the sequel to Braveheart!

Karen Marie Moning

#17. Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

Kate DiCamillo

#18. One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#19. Every now and then I'll read a book, I'll be so proud of myself, I'll try and squeeze it into conversation. People will be like, "Hey Jim, how ya do-" "I read a book! Two hundred and fifty pages!" "That's great, what was it about?" "No idea! Took me three years!"

Jim Gaffigan

#20. That was fifteen years ago. Fifteen Valentine's Days.

Jerry Spinelli

#21. Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

Matsuo Basho

#22. Clinically, angina pectoris was known to be precipitated by anxiety and emotion just as well as by exercise.

James Black