Practice Quotes
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I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because thats where I practice and write and listen and study.
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I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.
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Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from reading Thich Nhat Hahn books. Those things can be joyful but I think it’s the small, simple joys of playing with dogs or having sex with someone you love or going for a walk outside, stuff that we tend to ignore.
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I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.
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Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.
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Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.
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Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
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Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!
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It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
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The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.
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Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!
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I'll never limit his time during a game, but we'll give him days off from practice. I've never done that in my career, but this is a special case.
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Many of us who affirm and practice spiritual gifts would feel more comfortable among anticharismatics who are at least grounded in Scripture than among such flaky charismatics.
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The art of dressing is the art we all practice.
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Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings.
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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it
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School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.
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Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.
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In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
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Knowledge is governed not by a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
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We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
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Being on time is a practice I imbibed from my dad. He would be ready with make-up on at least three hours ahead of schedule.
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The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.
