Practice Quotes

• It's a huge edge, sometime life-saving, to adopt a good idea early and put it into practice.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • Life
  • Good
  • Practice

• We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Practice

• Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed.

  

  Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion...

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Practice
  • Criticism
  • Investor

• Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.

  

  Dave LaPoint
  • Team
  • Practice
  • Batting

• I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • American
  • Party
  • Practice

• Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Learn
  • Qualities
  • Loving People

• The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.

  

  Wallace D. Wattles
  • Practice
  • Gratitude
  • Attraction

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Daily

• 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

• Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.

  

  Annie Oakley
  • Practice
  • Hit
  • Shooting

• Green synthetic practice mats are the worst thing for your golf game that I know of. You can hit six inches behind the ball and not even know it, because the ball still gets airborne. Practice nets are awful, too. Swing a weighted club instead.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Green

• I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Play
  • Practice
  • Warm

• I can't remember missing a practice because of illness.

  

  Don Shula
  • Remember
  • Practice
  • Missing

• If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

  

  Muriel Spark
  • Thoughts
  • Approach
  • Spirituality

• For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Enemy
  • Compassion

• The goal is not just butterfly collecting or mammal collecting to simply describe mammals. All of that comparative work across mammals is about informing the human genome for medicine. Until we actually understand all the working parts within our genome, we won't really be able to practice the most informed medicine.

  

  Eric Lander
  • Goal
  • Medicine
  • Collecting

• Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Practice
  • Effort

• Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

  

  Aaron John Baddeley
  • Trust
  • Practice

• Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels.

  

  Geeta Iyengar
  • Path
  • Yoga
  • Maturity

• One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.

  

  Alfred Sheinwold
  • Practice
  • Playing
  • Bidding

• In practice, there is no consequence. If you miss a ball, you just pick up another ball and serve again, or you come back the next day and play. In the matches, every point has got a consequence. If you lose, you don't come back the next day and play.

  

  Kyle Edmund
  • Up
  • Practice

• Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others.

  

  William Henry Irwin
  • Hatred
  • Drunkenness
  • Gluttony

• I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but because of his omnipresent images.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Political
  • Practice

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