Willingness To Practice Quotes

#1. Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

Marvin J. Ashton

#3. A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#4. To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

Jack Kornfield

#5. It's not about worthiness, it's about willingness.

R. Alan Woods

#6. As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for "instructions.

Gina Greenlee

#7. Parallel Realities: While people sit in a coffee shop talking about their problems, challenges and struggles, I sit among them writing books with the solutions.

Robin Sacredfire

#8. Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

Louis Kronenberger

#9. That woman freaks me out. She's the whole reason I'm gay and I only met her yesterday.

L.J. Hayward

#10. Learning how to love your neighbor requires a willingness to draw on the strength of Jesus Christ as you die to self and live for Him. Living in this manner allows you to practice biblical love for others in spite of adverse circumstances or your feelings to the contrary.

John C. Broger

#11. The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

Anna Funder

#12. Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms.

Julia Cameron

#13. 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

#14. In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

Kenneth G. Wilson

#15. Only nurture a broken heart that recognizes it, and is willing to put in the work of minding.

T.F. Hodge

#16. When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.

Frederick Lenz