Practice Quotes - Page 27

• I am grateful for all those people who said no. It is because of them that I did it myself. Practice an attitude of gratitude. You can either be miserable dwelling on the troubles you have or grateful for the ones you don't have. Your troubles don't care but it makes a huge difference in your life.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

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• Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Responsibility, Giving

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• Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.

  Confucius

  Essentials, Useless, Dangerous

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• Nurses have new and expanding roles. They are case managers, helping patients navigate the maze of health care choices and develop plans of care. They are patient educators who focus on preventative care in a multitude of settings outside hospitals. And they are leaders, always identifying ways for their practice to improve. Because nurses have the most direct patient care, they have much influence on serious treatment decisions. It is a very high stakes job. Everyone wants the best nurse for the job, and that equates to the best educated nurse.

  Judi Evans

  Jobs, Nursing, Nurse

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• First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

  Oscar Peterson

  Men, Piano, Two

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• Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

  William Osler

  Lonely, Men, Practice Of Medicine

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.273, Duke University Press

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• The first practice is the practice of undiscriminating virtue: take care of those who are deserving; also, and equally, take care of those who are not. When you extend your virtue in all directions without discriminating, you feet are firmly planted on the path that returns to the Tao.

  Laozi

  Feet, Taoism, Care

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teaching, Principles, Fields

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

  Ezra Klein

  College, Men, Everyday

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• Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Believe, Law

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Law of Victory: Lesson 15 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I, like probably a lot of people, burn out every once in a while. What I have learned from my own experience is that there are two reasons for it to happen. It is that I am either physically tired or mentally tired. If either of these are the case, the wisest decision is to blow off practice. Blowing off practice is healthy. I didn't understand that until I was so burnt out that I wanted to make scrap material out of my single and my oars.

  Xeno Muller

  Tired, Blow, Thinking

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• One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this claim. In figure skating, for instance, the novice practices only simple moves. After years of training, the skater then proceeds to the jumps and spins that make up an elite skater's program. But the novice rower, from day one, strives to duplicate a motion that he'll still be doing on the day of the Olympic finals.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Moving, Unique

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• Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of it meant to be seen by anyone. In a similar way, rowing practices are our sketchbooks, where we prepared our raceday masterpiece.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Running, Ideas, Pieces

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• I watched them carefully, as always, searching for a sign of mental weakness. But there was none. Every man was coping well with the hardship, each one of them locked into his task. But it is one thing to practice, and quite another to race. And the trouble is, you never know who, on the day, will find it within his soul to give more than he has ever given before. It takes a kind of madness to compete like that, because of the will power and the ego, and his loyalty. And while some men have it, others have yet to find it. And a coach can only use his best judgement as to who those men will be.

  Daniel Topolski

  Loyalty, Men, Race

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• Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Motivational, Art, Work

  "Kurt Vonnegut Once Sent This Amazing Letter To A High School" by Emily Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2014.

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• There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in the midsummer sun of India, and in winter float in the waters of the Ganga for a whole day; they do not care. Men sit in the snow of the Himalayas, and do not care to wear any garment. What is heat? What is cold? Let things come and go, what is that to me, I am not the body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sleep, Winter, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.951, Manonmani Publishers

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• I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Home, Kids

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• In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the way they are, endlessly repeating themselves, endlessly renewed. When man interferes with the Tao, the sky becomes filthy, the earth becomes depleted, the equilibrium crumbles, creatures become extinct. The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as stone.

  Laozi

  Humility, Compassion, Men

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• If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

  Laozi

  Fall, Ambition, Men

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• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  Garry Shandling

  Sex, Safety, Use

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• We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

  Che Guevara

  Wise, Would Be, May

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• Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

  Amit Ray

  Art, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.93, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• One conscious breathe in and out is a meditation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Breathe

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• Self-Enquiry is not asking you to believe or to trust - it is putting a mirror in front of you and asking you to look. Enquiry is suited to many people in the West, because we are more mental. And it is very direct. So unsparing is its look that nothing can escape.

  Mooji

  Believe, Inspiration, Mirrors

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• You are the knower of knowledge; you perceive perceiving. Come to this place, and see if any questions remain there within you.

  Mooji

  Inspiration, Meditation, Perceive

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