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• Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Mean, Writing, Way

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice goodheartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Dream, Attachment, Quality

  "Life in Relation to Death". Second Edition,

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• Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.

  Charlie Munger

  Usual, Investing, Sometimes

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• Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Art, Illustration, Teens

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• The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.

  August Wilson

  Struggle, Law, Serious

  August Wilson, Larry Fishburne, Samuel G Freedman, Marion Isaac McClinton, Tony Kushner (2007). “August Wilson Century Cycle”

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• Power to the people' can only
  be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is
  dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of
  his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than
  power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an
  undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never
  have power until they disappear as a 'people.

  Murray Bookchin

  Mean, People, Leader

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• George Smith shows how many of the prophet’s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice … [and he tells this in] a lucid writing style.

  Daniel Walker Howe

  Writing, Lds, Style

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• Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Children, Mistake, Men

  Jerome K. Jerome “Dreams”, Library of Alexandria

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• You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

  Brett Hoebel

  Believe, Needs, Nutrition

  "The 3 Most Important Factors In Weight Loss" by Brett Hoebel, www.askmen.com.

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• The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity

  David Hume

  Law, Water, Different

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• You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

  Bob Uecker

  Cheer, Team, Pitcher

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• Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

  Bruce Lee

  Long, Perfect, Natural

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• Translate goals into practice + repetition = success!

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Goal, Repetition, Translate

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• No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Battle, Study, Theory

  "Suvorov". Book by K. Ossipov, 1945.

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• There should be a period of time during each practice session when you perform. Invite some friends in to your practice room and play a passage or a page of something. ... What I'm trying to indicate is that each day should contain some amount of performing. You should engage in the deliberate act of story telling each day you practice. Don't only gather information when you practice, spend time imparting it. This is important.

  Arnold Jacobs

  Play, Important, Trying

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• When I was twenty-one, a friend gave me a book called Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which exposed the brutal practices of American factory farms. That, coupled with a lecture from Leonardo DiCaprio (when he was nineteen and I was twenty-one) about how such animals are kept and processed, made me lose my desire for factory farm pork and beef right there.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Book, Animal

  Gwyneth Paltrow (2011). “My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blessed, People, Forever

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.276, Wildside Press LLC

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• School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Motivational, Wall, Powerful

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• The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Party, Mean, Guilt

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• Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation , followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.

  David Blaine

  Perseverance, Simple, Magic

  Interview with Adam Kimmel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Law, Meditation, Mind

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• Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.

  Pema Chodron

  Agitation, Facts, Calm

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.131, Shambhala Publications

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• Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

  Seth Godin

  Art, Creating, Deception

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• I don't work with a trainer. I just go to cheerleading practice and run a couple times a week.

  Kendall Jenner

  Running, Cheerleading, Couple

  "Get to Know Kendall Jenner!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2011.

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• Amateurs practice until they get it right.
  Professionals practice until it can't go wrong.

  Julie Andrews

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