Practice Quotes - Page 23

• Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it, and that he is doing it all wrong and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragement; make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it - and he will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel.

  Dale Carnegie

  Encouragement, Children, Husband

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• Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Artist, Immature

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• For this the Gospel offers us a serene way forward: using the three languages of the mind, heart and hands - and to use them in harmony. What you think, you must feel and put into effect. Your information comes down to your heart and you put  it into practice. Harmoniously.  What you think, you feel, and you do. Feel what you think and feel what you do. Do what you think and what you feel. The three languagesTo think. To feel. To do. And all in harmony.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Thinking, Hands

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• Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.

  Paul Brunton

  Meditation, Fundamentals, Quests

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• Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Men, Example

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.152, Stanford University Press

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• So, practice, particularly after you've attained a job, any kind of job, like playing with a four piece band, that's... an opportunity to develop.

  Buddy Rich

  Jobs, Opportunity, Band

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• When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Limits, Restriction

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Thinking, Involved, Ifs

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Reading, Writing, Doctors

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• My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings: members of species other than our own - or, as we popularly though misleadingly call them, animals. In other words, I am urging that we extend to other species the basic principle of equality that most of us recognize should be extended to all members of our own species.

  Peter Singer

  Attitude, Animal, Principles

  Helga Kuhse, Udo Schüklenk, Peter Singer (2015). “Bioethics: An Anthology”, p.530, John Wiley & Sons

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• Miles Davis, his parents migrated from Arkansas to Illinois, where he had the luxury of being able to practice for hours upon hours. He never would have been able to do that in the cotton country of Arkansas.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Country, Illinois, Luxury

  "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2010.

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• Practice writing and speaking about what you do.

  Sanford Biggers

  Writing

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• I practice Transcendental Meditation and I had enough exercise. I am one who thinks that not only need to have patience, we must persevere. If you do it right you'll see results.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Exercise, Thinking, Meditation

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• We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.

  Jacques Ellul

  Christian, Distance, Church

  Jacques Ellul (2011). “The Subversion of Christianity”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• This pious practice, by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is honored and the Christian people enriched with spiritual gifts, gladdens and consoles us. Mary remains ever the path that leads to Christ. Every encounter with her can only result in an encounter with Christ himself

  Pope Paul VI

  Christian, Spiritual, Blessed

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• I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Long, Liberty, Directors

  "Interview in Rome". Encountering Directors, (pp. 15-32), 1972.

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• There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

  Warren E. Burger

  Prayer, Doubt, Fabric

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• Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it? No, we just enjoy it. Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing. We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing. We can be in touch with these things right now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sunshine, Sky, Breathing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

  Isabel Allende

  Fear, Reality, Wish

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• The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Animal, Humanity

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• If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

  Cennino Cennini

  Flower, Men, Hands

  "Il libro dell' arte".

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• No one can give you magickal powers. You have to earn them.
  There is only one way to do this. Practice, practice, practice!

  Donald Michael Kraig

  Giving, Paganism, Way

  Donald Michael Kraig (2010). “Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts”, p.7, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Compassion, Meditation, Ease

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Apr 03, 2013

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• Meditation is as important as lifting weights and being out here on the field for practice.

  Russell Okung

  Lifting Weights, Meditation, Important

  "Lotus pose on two". Interview with Alyssa Roenigk, www.espn.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Rights, Iran, Organization

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