Practice Quotes

• Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please, universal soul, practice some song, or something, through me!

  

  Rumi
  • Soul
  • Longing
  • Ecstatic

• I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don't help our children cultivate contemplation, reflection, prayer, meditation, or whatever other practice of mindfulness, then they're likely to be completely spun out of their center by the time they're in grade school.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Children
  • School

• My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

  

  Joan Halifax
  • Work
  • War
  • Practice

• By practice and experience a man can (if the wind be of the right strength) imitate the complete sailing flight of birds by availing himself of the slight upward trend of some winds, by performing circling sweeps, and by allowing the air to carry him.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Experience
  • Air
  • Wind

• One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Emotional
  • Characters
  • Which

• An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory.

  

  John Jacob Astor
  • Practice
  • Theory

• To say that Iran doesn't practice terrorism is like saying Derek Jeter never played shortstop for the New York Yankees.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Practice

• The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

  

  Diogenes
  • Health
  • Necessary
  • Vigor

• The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Man
  • Action
  • Knows

• If you're dreaming of being a great soloist, walking on stage, receiving ovations night after night, having money thrown at you, girls chasing after you and your beautiful picture - that's wonderful. But what exactly does that have to do with the practice of music?

  

  Wu Han
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Picture

• I always say that practice gets you to the top most of the time.

  

  David Beckham
  • Time
  • Practice

• When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Work
  • Practice

• People must have the right to freely practice their religion. It is written in our founding documents and at the core of our values. If you look at my record, you'll see I safeguarded those values.

  

  Deborah K. Ross
  • People
  • Practice

• All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Practice

• Part of what any good health-care professional does, including an advanced-practice nurse, is know when it is time to seek help from more experienced professionals. I'm a primary care doctor. It doesn't mean I know everything. When something is beyond my competency or expertise, I seek consultation from my colleagues.

  

  David Shulkin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Help

• The Gutenberg galaxy was theoretically dissolved in 1905 with the discovery of curved space, but in practice it had been invaded by the telegraph two generations before that. (p. 286)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Space
  • Practice
  • Galaxy

• Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

  

  Martin H. Fischer
  • Beginning
  • Practice

• I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Guitar
  • Piano
  • Bass

• I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sex Life
  • Objection
  • Frighten

• A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

  

  John Paul Jones
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Education

• What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and, by cautious experimentation, to prove how it works? What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Practice
  • Service

• All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind a wire around it, then plug the wire in. The core gets hot, the wires smoke, and the fuse blows. So you see, there are practical limitations to theory.

  

  James Van Allen
  • Good
  • Practice
  • Wind

• Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

  

  Anton Seidl
  • Men
  • Art
  • America

• Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Education

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