Practice Quotes
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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 used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
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Knowledge is governed not by a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
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In the Republican Party, we talk all the time about the importance of free markets and open competition. It seems to me that if we don't practice what we preach, we won't have much credibility with others.
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My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping.
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If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
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The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
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After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!
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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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Life is full of acceptance and rejection. Unfortunately, many of us focus on the rejection. Yoga tells us it’s more useful to practice swaha, the idea of which is do the best you can, and let go of the rest. Tibetan Buddhists often translate swaha as “so be it.” Swaha is the rudder that can help us maintain equilibrium.
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The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I have pursued for thirty years ; and though I go from this heated theatre into the squares of the Hospital, in the severest winter nights, with merely silk stockings on my legs, yet I scarcely ever have a cold.
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Yoga is the practice of radical transformation
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Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.
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My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
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You yourself must earnestly practice, the enlightened ones only proclaim the path.
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Without question, students need to practice, review, and drill skills, but they should do so only in the spirit of working toward more complex mastery of those skills. Redundant drill of skills is inherently boring and insulting to the learner, and it is one of the most effective methods for turning students off to learning.
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But I still have to practice hard if I'm going to play my best tennis.
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Last year I mostly only pitched bullpens and batting practice. I went into the season without pitching in a big league game. But I was feeling great. So we're trying to keep the same routine here.
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I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy.
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Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.
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I've always practiced this: Love yourself. Move your body. Watch your portions.
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I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
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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.
