Practice Quotes

• Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.

  

  Milarepa
  • Practice
  • Realization

• Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Community
  • Practice
  • Drama

• I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

  

  Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Ignore
  • Directors
  • Liberties

• Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Practice
  • Appetite
  • Restraint

• Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Search

• What happens is that all your life you operated businesses in such a way that you could one day afford to buy a baseball team. And then you buy the team and forget all the business practices that enabled you to buy it.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Way
  • Team
  • Baseball

• I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Respect
  • Spiritual
  • Attitude

• Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.

  

  Richard Masur
  • Riding
  • Subway
  • Spelling

• To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?

  

  Confucius
  • Practice
  • Study
  • Learned

• Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Short

• I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Words
  • Walking

• It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Practice

• During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Practice
  • Attitude

• The only place at Michigan State I was never late to was the practice. It didn't start until I got there.

  

  Duffy Daugherty
  • Practice
  • Late

• The contrivances which are necessary to counteract the wind effects can only be understood by actual practice in the wind.

  

  Otto Lilienthal
  • Practice
  • Wind

• I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Friend
  • Couple
  • Meditation

• 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

• You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Theory
  • Deny
  • Deceiving

• Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Feels
  • India
  • Labels

• That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

  

  Allan Lokos
  • Value
  • Practice

• Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom immediately appears... and the all-discerning Fivefold Eye opens wide.

  

  Hakuin Ekaku
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • Practice

• A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Practice
  • Achieve
  • Conscious

• If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Yoga
  • Maturity

• I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

  

  Bobby Orr
  • Practice
  • River

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