Best 3735 quotes in «practice quotes» category

Hope never comes late, we should consistently practice it.

Human potential is the ability of a person or humanity to put their theoretical abilities into practice

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Humility puts others first because "first" takes on new meaning through the practice of humility.

Hygge is a practice related to how we create and preserve meaning in the places we inhabit, how we make homes that comfort us and bring us together. ...then we begin to really inhabit a place or a moment in time and open ourselves to what it has to give.

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

I could never sit in a room and just play all by myself. I needed to play for people and all the time. You can say I practiced in public.

I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

If you aren't practicing what you preach, how can, and why should, anyone trust you?

If you dread ending up in the bunker, practice these tricky out-of-the-sand shots until you master them. Think of it as insurance—we all have learned that, once you know you can make that shot easily, you will seldom need to!

If you go door to door in our nation and talk to citizens about domestic violence, almost everyone will insist that they do not support male violence against women, that they believe it to be morally and ethically wrong. However, if you then explain that we cannot end male violence against women by challenging patriarchy, and that means no longer accepting the notion that men should have more rights and privileges than women because of biological difference or that men should have the power to rule over women, that is when the agreement stops. There is a gap between the values they claim to hold and their willingness to do the work of connecting thought and action, theory and practice to realize these values and thus create a more just society.

If you can practice the rule of ten thousand hours, you will be amazed to find out how easy it is to become the best in that your area of calling.

If you really one to become great, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours.

If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

If you want something new or different, you must prepare to receive something new or different. Break routine, do something different, venture out of your comfort zone. Practice letting something new or different into your life.

If you want to be more flexible and adaptable, practice challenging your comfort zones.

I made the valuable discovery that practicing wasn't a matter of time at all. It was a matter of intensity. Five minutes spent working consciously and hard at the elimination of an error, was worth five hours just playing away ignoring errors as if they hadn't happened.

If you put the time and work into getting better therefore that is called practice, anything that you practice you will definitely get better.

I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller—and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music. -Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works.

I think practice what you preach is a half-baked cop out as you need to do more than practice as only when you do will you have the right to preach it

[I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality. . . . (20)

If you don't like how others define & label you, then work on your values. Embrace and practice values that you would like to be associated.

...[I]n any inquiry you are likely to attain more nearly to knowledge of your object in proportion to the care and accuracy with which you have prepared yourself to understand that object in itself[.]

In this space, We do raw We do loud hearts & truthful art We do open arms & unfettered forgiveness We do real We do vulnerable We do wild In this space, We do love In all the shapes & forms That we come in We do love

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.

I say take what good you can get, and next time make it better,

It is slow, gradual pressure that is the formula for both genius and earthquakes. Life tells us our secrets in these cracks, the way events conspire with each other in hidden grottos. This movement is at times very subtle, over a long time, like plate tectonics. If you don't have the right eyes, you might miss these patterns altogether. Although our lives do not occur in geological scales of time, it is still the gradual pressure and our minute reactions, our habits, that actually speak of our true natures. Our true will and intent is contained in potential within each of us, though in many it is buried very, very deep.

It isn't experience that sets top performers apart but the amount of deliberate practice they put in.

It's hard to learn to listen to your instincts. It's easier for some who have a natural ability to follow that little voice inside, but for others it takes practice.

It's all about Perfection or the tolerance of Imperfection

It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing.

Listening is a tough skill, but one who practice it becomes The Successful Leader!!!

It takes lot of practice to get it right.

It's amazing how people can find all the mistakes in the world concerning another person, but look into the mirror every day without making changes within. Stop looking down your nose at others, What does that achieve? We all can make room for improvements. Most of the time it starts with a little attitude adjustment.

Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.

Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you. I hate reasoning, John,—especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves, when it comes to practice. I know you well enough, John. You don't believe it's right any more than I do; and you wouldn't do it any sooner than I.

Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing.

Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.

Mindfulness is the open-hearted energy of being aware in the present moment. It’s the daily cultivation—practice—of touching life deeply.

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

Moral relativism sounds good in theory but is impossible to practice.

Moving rocks today strengthens you for moving mountains tomorrow.

Moral values are changing with a change in social outlook. We are frustrated today because we use old definitions of morality for the modern world. We want people to be moral as well as modern which is a difficult goal to achieve in practice. The loss of old standards of morality is the price we have to pay to achieve more freedom, more equality and more material prosperity.

Navigating the complex world isn’t all that mindfulness addresses, it also helps with the inevitable challenges that life brings - both the joy and the pain.

My future is born of an idea, so I keep some paper and a pen and create a lot of ideas at the end of the day. The next day, I put them into practice.

Never stop being yourself. When you start faking who you are, you start lying to yourself. You can lie about who you are to the people around you, and they may even believe you, but when you lie to yourself something will always feel wrong. You can't fake who you are forever and eventually, you will wear yourself down. This doesn't mean that you must remain the way you are forever. You can change yourself with time and practice. You will feel the difference between true change and fake change. True change requires work. That work is worth it.

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too.