Top 100 The Practice Quotes
#1. Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.
Bede Griffiths
#2. I am uneasy about the practice of other people telling you how to write. This is especially true for beginners who haven't yet developed their style and their writer's persona and are easily pushed off the course.
Yuriy Tarnawsky
#3. With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.
Nhat Hanh
#4. Yoga is really the practice of seeing what's most important. Focusing on that first. Then it helps everything else sort of fall into alignment.
MC Yogi
#5. Sabbath is the practice of letting life rest safely in God's hand.41
Walter Brueggemann
#6. Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].
Joseph Pilates
#7. In a technological society, the practice of completely private property cannot exist.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#8. As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to be more positive, to engage in the practice meditation, to learn how to do this wonderful thing - make your mind still in a crazy world.
Frederick Lenz
#9. Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.
Dogen
#10. The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#11. But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation.
Vitruvius
#12. The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion - but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.
Chogyam Trungpa
#13. The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet - to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind - with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.
Nhat Hanh
#14. The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.
Daniel Goleman
#15. Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
Ramana Maharshi
#16. Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.
Tariq Ramadan
#17. It would seem this is the gift modernity has bestowed upon our generation: the practice of "dating," an awkward procedure where a man and a woman find themselves talking rot to each other in a darkened room. If it were up to me, I would say modernity can keep it, as I want no part.
Suzanne Rindell
#18. To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
Mark Nepo
#19. There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#20. Making a film is a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.
Sydney Pollack
#21. So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.
Alexander Pope
#22. The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.
Yehudi Menuhin
#23. The practice of yoga allows us to become more conscious of our own physical existence and how significant we really are.
Sharon Gannon
#24. The practice of Detachment encourages the positive aspects of your life to become dominant, while providing a clear path for the negative aspects to recede.
Gary Hopkins
#25. There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.
Mark Twain
#26. I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.
Sharon Stone
#27. Nothing about the practice of modern science is obvious to someone who has never seen it done.
Steven Weinberg
#28. The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.
Clyde Kluckhohn
#29. Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.
Davey Havok
#30. In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.
Chogyam Trungpa
#31. The total vacuity of world leadership thinking has lead to the practice of claiming to heal the world through politicising unviable theoretical means of finding world peace,what we need is just to cement the differences between people and there will be a piece of peace at every doorstep
Mpho Leteng
#32. I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important.
Mark Knopfler
#33. The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fischer
#34. The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
Agnes De Mille
#35. The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin Disraeli
#36. Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
Tom Stoppard
#37. The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government ...
George Washington
#38. The masterstroke of male fraternity, I believed, was the practice of never speaking of anything remotely personal or related to one's emotions. That way, no one is ever made uncomfortable. Any such awkward moments can always be dispelled with a flurry of pretend-punches.
Lynn Coady
#39. Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.
Frederick Lenz
#40. The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.
Marshall Goldsmith
#41. A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.
Bell Hooks
#42. Despite living in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom in America, the practice of policing sexuality has continued unabated since the days of the Puritans.
Esther Perel
#43. We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#44. The practice of peace, kindness and mercy are probably the most vital attributes of humanity! Timothy Pina
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Timothy Pina
#45. The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure ... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.
Michel Foucault
#46. The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges.
Meir Soloveichik
#47. Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.
Thomas Aquinas
#48. When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of making art, was the only space that was mine alone, where I could be anyone and do anything, where just by using my head and my hands I could cry, or laugh, or get pissed off.
Kim Gordon
#49. When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are participating in a total experience ... In this experience the beautiful, the decent, and the serious form a circle with hands joined.
Paulo Freire
#50. Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.
Frederick Lenz
#51. The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.
Calvin Coolidge
#52. Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.
Alison Bechdel
#53. The very word baptize, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient church.
John Calvin
#54. The mind is compared to a wild horse,and the practice of ethics is compared to the reins by which this wild horse is tamed.
Dalai Lama XIV
#55. The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
Ai Weiwei
#56. This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness.
John Cowper Powys
#58. He had shrewd, on the spot judgement about human nature. Good sense with good manners and the practice of contentment made up in his view a large part of wisdom.
Theresa Whistler
#59. I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it's an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.
Andrew Weil
#60. Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
#61. The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
Betty Grable
#62. The goal of the practice is not happiness... the goal of the practice is freedom.
Michael Stone
#63. Whenever the civil government forbids the practice of things that God has commanded us to do, or tells us to do things He has commanded us not to do, then we are on solid ground in disobeying the government and rebelling against it.
Pat Robertson
#64. The practice of love and compassion are the most important treatment for the sickness of hatred and revival of peace in the world.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#66. When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo
Bell Hooks
#67. Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.
Francis Schaeffer
#68. Like all their peers they went about things in the reverse order to the practice of their parents generation. They had sex, realised they got on really well then fell in love.
Patrick Gale
#69. Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
Jesse Owens
#70. For dialogue to be fruitful, we need to live deeply our own tradition and, at the same time, listen deeply to others. Through the practice of deep looking and deep listening, we become free, able to see the beauty and values in our own and others' tradition.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#71. Master Fwap, who told me that snowboarding, or any activity could be improved by the practice of meditation. Since I had had previously some training in Korean martial arts, I was somewhat open to the idea.
Frederick Lenz
#72. Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
Ramana Maharshi
#73. The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired.
Philip Kotler
#74. The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace.
Jiulio Consiglio
#75. The practice of mindfulness is nothing more than focusing on the current moment.
Debasish Mridha
#76. The basis of the practice is to directly participate in each moment as it occurs with as much awareness and understanding as possible.
Stephen Levine
#77. Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not.
Dave Hickey
#78. There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men, not to serve others, but themselves; and they try all things only to hold fast that which is bad.
Charles Caleb Colton
#79. True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.
David O. McKay
#80. Sadhana means the practice to closest to the GOD (Baba) and a Shivir means an environment in which the sadhakas get the opportunity and guidance to do sadhana in a perfect manner ... i think.
Shailendra Kumar Lal
#81. Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility .
Nouman Ali Khan
#82. I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
William Graham Sumner
#83. Nobody's having any babies, yet," Mason said, spreading both arms wide. Still pale after the onslaught of questions, he managed to smirk at his brothers and add, "Although I'm enjoying the practice of making them.
Lisa Carlisle
#84. Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.
Frederick Lenz
#85. It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.
Henry Mintzberg
#86. Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.
Anna Louise Strong
#87. My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
Charles Lamb
#88. I plan my golf outfits for the tournaments, I recycle some for the practice rounds, but I always have new ideas for my golf attire, and I like to dress nice after the rounds, so I have to bring all my heels. It's terrible. The worst part about being on tour is living out of a suitcase.
Paula Creamer
#89. Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.
John Kador
#90. Take 5 is the practice if spending 5 minutes a day giving focused attention to your hopes for your talent.
Don Maruska
#91. The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.
Rodney Yee
#92. The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
William E. Gladstone
#93. I had been opposed to the practice of dedicating books; I had held that a book is addressed to any reader who proves worthy of it.
Ayn Rand
#94. I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
Stanley Kubrick
#95. It is interesting to me how technology has in many ways facilitated and refined the practice of deception
Suzanne Rindell
#96. The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#97. To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
Eudora Welty
#98. In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
#99. With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.
John Maynard Keynes
