Practice Quotes - Page 23

• In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

  Edward Bernays

  Fabric, Dozen, Soap

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays, 1928.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Past, Reality, Dwelling

  37 Copy quote

• There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

  Patty Berg

  Golf, Games, Ifs

  17 Copy quote

• The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.

  Avro Manhattan

  Principles, Firsts, Thirds

  9 Copy quote

• Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

  Duncan Sheik

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Lacking

  7 Copy quote

• The shaman no longer looks for meaning in life, but brings meaning to every situation. The shaman stops looking for truth and instead brings truth to every encounter. You don t look for the right partner, you become the right partner. And then the right partner finds you. It s a very active practice focused on healing.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Healing, Encounters, Looks

  11 Copy quote

• This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas. They range over many delicious topics, giving us an enchanting personal view of the history and practice of magic, of mathematics, and of the fascinating connection between the two cultures. Magical Mathematics will have an utterly devoted readership.

  Barry Mazur

  Book, Unique, Views

  7 Copy quote

• An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather primarily a lived and historically changing set of distinctive social practices. It is in these practices that 'content' is generated, debated, and transformed via certain distinctive ways of thinking, talking, valuing, acting, and, often, writing and reading.

  James Paul Gee

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  James Paul Gee (2014). “What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy. Second Edition”, p.21, Macmillan

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

  Chanakya

  Husband, Ignorance, Army

  22 Copy quote

• He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

  Chanakya

  Twenties, Virtue, Invincible

  10 Copy quote

• If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.

  Ben Lerner

  Admitting, Kind, Speak

  Ben Lerner (2012). “Leaving the Atocha Station”, p.58, Granta Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Chanting is a significant and mysterious practice. It is the highest nectar, a tonic that fully nourishes our inner being. Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us. It releases such intoxicating inner bliss and enthusiastic splendor, that simply through the nectar it generates, we can enter the abode of the Self.

  Swami Muktananda

  Heart, Self, Making Love

  85 Copy quote

• The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

  Robert Buettner

  Fighting, Animal, Men

  Robert Buettner (2011). “Overkill”, p.72, Baen Publishing Enterprises

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice.

  John Alexander Dowie

  Christian, Theory

  61 Copy quote

• I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

  Rich Sommer

  Fatherhood, Acting

  4 Copy quote

• Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.

  John Seely Brown

  Flow, Rail

  Laurence Prusak, Katalina Groh, Stephen Denning, John Seely Brown (2012). “Storytelling in Organizations”, p.80, Routledge

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Moving, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.44, New World Library

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.

  Paul Hawken

  Powerful, Thinking, Giving

  "Capital Gains" by Paul Hawken, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't practice what I preach, I preach what I practice.

  Charles Capps

  41 Copy quote

• Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.

  Jerry Bridges

  Religious, Real, Important

  18 Copy quote

• By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Journey, Illumination

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.9, Rodale

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

  Periander

  Perfect, Practice Makes Perfect, Perfect Practice

  18 Copy quote

• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

  Maya Angelou

  Important, Virtue

  4 Copy quote

• One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Distance, Meditation

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

  Sam Keen

  Fearless, Learn To Fly

  6 Copy quote