Practice Quotes - Page 20

• The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.

  Pema Chodron

  Revenge, Fall, Emotional

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Museums, Periods

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.186, University of Georgia Press

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• Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Time, Couple, Dad

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• Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Order, Play

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• Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Expectations, Vices

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

  Mao Zedong

  Study, Theory, Significance

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.155, Lulu.com

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• La musique avant toute chose.

  Paul Verlaine

  Paul Verlaine (2013). “Jadis et naguère”, p.13, Presses Électroniques de France

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• Humor is man's greatest blessing.

  Mark Twain

  Blessing, Men, Greatest Blessings

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• Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.

  Bankei Yotaku

  Hate, Thinking, Illumination

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• The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.

  Blaine Wilson

  Inspirational, One Day, Scrapbooking

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• Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

  David Richo

  Spiritual, Meditation, Mindfulness

  David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

  Benito Mussolini

  Beautiful, Men, Talking

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• Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

  Annie Smith Peck

  Brain, Endurance, Littles

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• In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other aspects of the huge, powerful and immensely profitable health care industry. Medicine is no longer an independent profession. Doctors have become nothing more than a link connecting the pharmaceutical industry to the consumer.

  Vernon Coleman

  Powerful, Independent, Medicine

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• Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

  Karl Jaspers

  Objectivity, Action, Significant

  "On My Philosophy" by Karl Jaspers, www.marxists.org. 1941.

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• Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

  Davey Havok

  Drug Use, People, Facts

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• Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice, because on God's road, not to advance is to fall back since man never remains in the same condition.

  Vincent de Paul

  Perseverance, Fall, Men

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Practice humility and patience.

  Vincent de Paul

  Humility, Humility And Patience, Values

  Saint Vincent De Paul, Pierre Coste (1998). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Dec. 1657-June 1659”, New City Pr

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• . . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Real, Teaching

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• (1) Be convinced that exactness in rising is one of the most important practices in the Company and that as the day begins so the rest of the day continues; (2) give yourselves sincerely to God on going to bed in the evening, asking Him for the strength to overcome yourselves in the morning and to obey His voice without delay.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Morning, Voice

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (1967). “Li chi: book of rites: An encyclopedia of ancient ceremonial usages, religious creeds, and social institutions”

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• I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Art, Creativity, Vision

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2004.

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• The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

  B. F. Skinner

  Jesus, Men, Opposites

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• This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Business, Father, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3702, Manonmani Publishers

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• Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Sports, Pride, Fire

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1984). “Giant Steps”, Bantam

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