Practice Quotes

• If we would gain light either on the theory or the practice of religion: i. We must sincerely desire the light. 2. We must use the light we already have. 3. We must patiently seek light in the double way of prayer and rational inquiry. Never, as long as the world stands, will any religiously benighted soul thus patiently desire and pray and labor for the break of day, without at last seeing the eyelids of the morn unsealed, and the painfully dusky east gradually redden into the sun.

  

  Enoch Fitch Burr
  • Soul
  • Desire
  • Religion

• Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.

  

  Brenda Shoshanna
  • Home
  • Pride
  • Pressure

• The discipline which I have imparted to you will lead you when I am gone. Practice mindfulness diligently, to attain the goal of awakening.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Practice
  • Goal
  • Discipline

• Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Common
  • Average
  • Tweet

• I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Teach
  • Self-Reliance
  • Sedition

• The one thing you've got to do with reading is it's something you've got to do every day. Anything you want to do in life, you've got to practice every day.

  

  Billy Donovan
  • Want
  • Practice
  • Everyday

• Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Freedom
  • Practice

• I think that's what it's all about; you work hard and practice to play on the big courts.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Work
  • Practice

• Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

  

  Erwin Chargaff
  • Practice
  • Biology
  • License

• At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Positive

• He's been battling through that. He rolled it right toward the latter part of winter conditioning. I was going to say something to him before practice because he wasn't taped. He's usually taped on that one ankle and he wasn't. But he was after that.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Practice
  • Conditioning
  • Battling

• I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Mood

• It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Sleep
  • Care
  • Restaurants

• Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Perfect
  • Practice

• Inviting a foreign head of state to address the Congress is a clear breach of protocol and practice, and undermines the U.S. presidency.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Practice

• Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

  

  Aida Overton Walker
  • Practice
  • Appreciation
  • Lesson

• Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Practice
  • Profession
  • Recognize

• The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

  

  Terence Hardy
  • Trying
  • Light
  • Terrible

• I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Help
  • Death
  • Wonder

• How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

  

  Ernest Henry Wilson
  • Science
  • Garden
  • Joy Of Life

• As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Image

• Generosity is only benevolence in practice.

  

  Thomas Ken
  • Practice
  • Generosity
  • Benevolence

• The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are all rights to which all human beings are entitled, whether they choose to exercise them in a city square or an Internet chat room. And just as we have worked together since the last century to secure these rights in the material world, we must work together in this century to secure them in cyberspace.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Faith
  • Practice
  • Social Change

• When I was told my team was lucky to win, I replied: "the more we practice, the luckier we get."

  

  Steve Blake
  • Practice
  • Win
  • Luckier

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