Quotes About Practicing

#1. We all want results and we want them fast. But, when practicing meditation, impatience is a hindrance.

Gudjon Bergmann

#2. ...celebrating the Eucharist as a remembrance of Christ means practicing God's justice towards neighbors, strangers, and enemies alike.

Patrick T. McCormick

#3. My mother made me take piano lessons, and because I am her oldest and she had not yet been worn down by the task of prodding five children to practice every day, she kept me practicing despite my whining.

Sheri L. Dew

#4. This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut.

Gabriel Weston

#5. You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.

Sue Monk Kidd

#6. As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.

Nhat Hanh

#7. I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

John Pople

#8. While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

Harvey Fierstein

#9. Recognize suffering, Eliminate its source, End it By practicing the path.

Matthieu Ricard

#10. Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.

Soko Morinaga

#11. Specialists can never practice their specialties too much. The danger is in not practicing enough. Make that mistake, and soon you may not be in the specialty business anymore.

Johnny Unitas

#12. When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.

Phil McGraw

#13. To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#14. I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

Ozzy Osbourne

#15. Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In my spare time, I usually go jogging around the Gelora Bung Karno stadium or head to the gym.

Joe Taslim

#16. We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become.

M. Russell Ballard

#17. I am practicing being kind over being right.

Matthew Quick

#18. I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Yoga is something that once you start practicing it you learn a lot of breathing skills and I think that would really be incredibly useful on a day-to-day basis. It can help you with all the emotional stress.

Jayne Middlemiss

#21. Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance with Eastern systems of healing. The Spirit of the East surges through every pore as a balm for all afflictions.

Carl Jung

#22. There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy.
The process whereby it migrates from one category to the other is known as practicing.

Louis Kentner

#23. As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

David Perlmutter

#24. Whatever belief I am practicing the Law of Attraction will validate with evidence.

Esther Hicks

#25. Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

Chinua Achebe

#26. The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

Jeffery Deaver

#27. The key to practicing levitation is simple. Practice jumping up - but not jumping down.

Judah Friedlander

#28. Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment.

Byllye Avery

#29. An artist's domain was private, a haven for practicing and experimenting, the one place where failure was still allowed.

Emma Raveling

#30. My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

David Guterson

#31. Missions is practicing God's presence until His passion compels us to obey.

Ann Dunagan

#32. In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#33. I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

David Axelrod

#34. The time we spend talking about Jiu Jitsu is time not spent practicing Jiu Jitsu. This is a necessary aspect of study, but it is one we mustn't lose ourselves in; we learn best by doing.

Chris Matakas

#35. Rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

Dorothy Cannell

#36. You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

Frances Hesselbein

#37. I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing.

Madonna Ciccone

#38. Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#39. If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

Marian Burros

#40. If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be.

Philippe Petit

#41. People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.

Brian Tracy

#42. Taj [ Johnson] is the singer in my family. So whenever I would be practicing my warmups in the house, she would let me have it. I could be on the other side of the house doing my voice lessons and she would scream, "Drop your jaw for those long notes."

Eddie George

#43. What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Nathan Sawaya

#44. There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now.

Bill Scott

#45. In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a month for a coupla hours. It's become my lifeline - forgive the pun.

Nigel Hamilton

#46. The calligraphy reads, "Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha." Listening to talks about the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha, or practicing meditation is nothing other than studying ourselves.

Pema Chodron

#47. The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.

Marshall Goldsmith

#48. The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

Kurt Vonnegut

#49. You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours every evening.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#50. Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.

Steven Wright

#51. Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

Adam Clymer

#52. Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

Yo-Yo Ma

#53. Tori joined us for dinner
in body, at least. She spent the meal practicing for a role in the next zombie movie, expressionless, methodically moving fork to mouth, sometimes even with food on it.

Kelley Armstrong

#54. Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I gain by practicing, by swinging the bat.

Ichiro Suzuki

#55. Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day.

Marci Shimoff

#56. The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.

Pema Chodron

#57. If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

Shunryu Suzuki

#58. IN practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal - quite the opposite.

Pema Chodron

#59. It takes practice to become proficient at something. Practicing the presence of God will make us good at it.

R. Alan Woods

#60. Olgun! Wake up!"
Her mind was filled with a sense of self-righteous and
vaguely drowsy protest.
"Sure you weren't, she needled at him. You were just
practicing snoring, so you'd be sure to get it right later on,
yes?"
Olgun's response very strongly resembled an indignant
snort.

Ari Marmell

#61. Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.

Tony Hoagland

#62. The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

Frank Gehry

#63. The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

Ted Nugent

#64. After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.

Doreen Cronin

#65. Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

Djimon Hounsou

#66. I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

Pat Metheny

#67. In the world of intellectual property, armies of lawyers (often employed by non-practicing entities, as I mentioned in chapter 6) do battle to seize the property of others - usually small businesses that are relatively defenseless.

Sam Wilkin

#68. I try very hard to maintain the confidence of my sources by speaking candidly with them, honoring agreements about the use of our conversation, and practicing journalism in an honest and straightforward way.

John Harwood

#69. Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#70. Why is it," Jonathan puzzled, "that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?

Richard Bach

#71. Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.

Anthony De Mello

#72. I spend a lot of time practicing active imagination before I go to sleep. What I'm feeling will manifest as images through active imagination. And then I go to sleep, and those play out even more in my dreams.

Jeff Mangum

#73. We best learn patience by practicing it.

Jim Elliot

#74. I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

Michael McMillian

#75. What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

George Leonard

#76. Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

Steve Carell

#77. When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the technique you were practicing and begin again.

Frederick Lenz

#78. I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

David Gilmour

#79. While there is nothing wrong with practicing martial arts, meditating, reading and studying, or even eating pie, excess in any of these areas will cause a problem in another area.

Bohdi Sanders

#80. Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#81. Religion is not a result of something that you practice. Religion enters in you any moment you relax. Religion is a flowering of relaxation, not a result of practicing. Remember the difference because when you practice you become more tense.

Rajneesh

#82. In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#83. I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing.

Andrew Hill

#84. The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

Sharon Salzberg

#85. In practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry.

Susan Hubbard

#86. I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

Larry Bird

#87. I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

Iman

#88. They have scarcely finished burying the dead from the last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one.

George R R Martin

#89. If it were true that Christianity and science were incompatible, there would be no Christians who were respected scientists. If fact, about forty percent of professional natural scientists are practicing Christians, and many others are theists of other kinds. Fewer than thirty percent are atheists.

Jeffrey Burton Russell

#90. One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

Georges St-Pierre

#91. Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

Merrie Spaeth

#92. My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing. If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like, 'Yeah! Burgers are cool!'

Gigi Hadid

#93. I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz ... a beautiful chaos.

Josephine De La Baume

#94. The [Apache] tribe was under siege by government agents, who had jailed some of the medicine men for practicing their rituals. Freedom of religion was cherished as a sacrosanct American right -- everywhere, that is, but on the archipelago of Indian life.

Timothy Egan

#95. There is more freedom to be gained from practicing poverty than chasing wealth. Suffer a little regularly and you often cease to suffer.

Timothy Ferriss

#96. If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.

Anne Lamott

#97. Nobody likes practice, but whats worse: practicing or sucking at something? ... Oh give me a fucking break, practicing is NOT worse than sucking.

Justin Halpern

#98. I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

Tina Turner

#99. My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training

Tiger Woods

#100. So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

Satish Kumar