Practice Quotes

• In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.

  

  John Wooden
  • Practice
  • Coaching

• Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need Buddhist. Do practice Compassion. The world needs more compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Compassion
  • Buddhist

• One must practice slowly, then more slowly, and finally slowly.

  

  Camille Saint-Saens
  • Practice

• Basketball requires discipline. So does writing. Basketball requires practice. So does writing. Basketball requires resilience. So does writing.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Writing
  • Discipline
  • Basketball

• Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• 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

• I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.

  

  Alexandra Paul
  • Trying
  • Practice

• The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Education
  • Water
  • inspirational

• Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood, sexuality, and speech but because of its assertion that black people are merely white people sullied by dark skin.

  

  Kevin Young
  • People
  • Long
  • Black

• Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Technology
  • Smart
  • Revolutionary

• Whenever we find stiffness in the body, our mind should be especially supple. It is never the stiffness in our bodies that limits our practice, it is always the stiffness of our mind.

  

  Geeta Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Practice
  • Body

• Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

  

  Wang Yangming
  • Practice
  • Knowing
  • Completion

• Because I practice often with my children at home.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Children
  • Home
  • Practice

• Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Health
  • Emotional

• Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Done
  • Knowledge
  • Perspective

• It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

  

  Eric Lindros
  • Time
  • Practice

• I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

  

  Alexander Henry
  • Hope
  • Law
  • Practice

• Practice non-action. Work without doing.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Work
  • Practice
  • Doing

• If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Ambition
  • Confusion
  • Resolve

• Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.

  

  Amy Chua
  • People
  • God
  • Kids

• People who are meditating every day and involved in a serious spiritual practice don't usually wake up in the morning and want to rush out to eat a bunch of junk food.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate and take hold. This way of understanding the dispersion of power helps us realize that power is not simply about certain individuals being targeted for death or exclusion by a ruler, but instead about the creation of norms that distribute vulnerability and security.

  

  Dean Spade
  • Power
  • Security
  • Vulnerability

• This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Garden
  • Yoga
  • Weed

• Having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men.

  

  Elton Welsby
  • Unions
  • Forbidden
  • Moses

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