Practice Quotes - Page 28

• Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

  Howard Gordon

  Listening, Promise, Stories

  "Howard Gordon tells Class of 2013: ‘Work hard and be nice’". www.conncoll.edu. May 19, 2013.

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• Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Order, Secret

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• My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording or when I'm playing on tour. When I'm sitting around at home, I never play.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

  Robert Breault

  Faith, Shadow, Trying

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• Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Flirting, Essentials, Coquette

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• I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Rebuilding, Transformation, Notion

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• We are aware of yoga only as a technique to gain physical strength, flexibility, or increased health. And indeed these are potent side effects of the practice. But that is what they are: side effects. To focus on these largely insignificant manifestations is to miss the point entirely.

  John McAfee

  Yoga, Focus, Missing

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• Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Effort, Important

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Substitutes

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.94, Rodale

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• Is it necessary to practice all these asanas, further and further? Is it necessary to develop scientific researches further and further? To a yogi, the body is a laboratory, a field of experiments and perpetual researches.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Research, Body, Asana

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

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• The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stress, Self, Anxiety

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• Happy Wednesday! Practice compassion. Lift others. Learn to encourage rather than criticize. You'll feel better when you help others feel better.

  Tracey Edmonds

  Feel Better, Helping Others, Compassion

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• I've learned that selflessness is a practice, not a place; a journey much more than a destination.

  Kayla Mueller

  Journey, Selflessness, I've Learned

  "Walking the Via Dolorosa: Young People in Solidarity—Until the End" by Jordan Denari, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2015.

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• Practice meditation. Become a seeker. Walk the path of the seeker. You will get the best of everything the world has to offer.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Meditation, World, Path

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• To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Knowing

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• Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

  Seneca the Younger

  Advice, Training, Doctrine

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• If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

  Laozi

  Way, Action, Undone

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• Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

  James Anthony Froude

  Law, Knows

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.256

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• Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sex, Needs, Citizens

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• There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

  William Ernest Henley

  Character, Men, Two

  William Ernest Henley (1906). “Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation: Literature”

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• A juggler's skill hath been long years alearning.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Years, Skills, Long

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1871). “Proverbial philosophy: in 4 ser., now first complete”, p.352

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• The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Men, Mazes

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.

  Mason Cooley

  Principles, Gullible, Cynicism

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• The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

  Norman Cousins

  Home, Decision, Enemy

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• In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Change, Dumb, Age

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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