Practice Quotes - Page 33

• It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Community, Participation, Rational

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• However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

  Antonin Artaud

  Order, Ideas, People

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.341, Univ of California Press

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• In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to your personal health circumstances. The time will come when, whatever illness you may have, for your body type and health history, there will 'be an app for that' to keep you on your best path to wellness.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Best Practices, Long, Support

  "Health Information Technology: Paving the Way to Improved Patient Care" by Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• You have to stand up and be a human. You have to honor the man or woman that you are. Respect your body, enjoy your body, love your body, feed, clean, and heal your body. Exercise and do what makes your body feel good. This is a puja to your body, and that is a communion between you and God. . . . When you practice giving love to every part of your body, you plant seeds of love in your mind, and when they grow, you will love, honor, and respect your body immensely.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love You, Exercise, Men

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• If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant radicals want to claim that Christianity means whatever Christian today happen to believe and practice, be it pantheism, unitarianism, or sodomy. The Christian faith has suffered immeasurable harm because of the tendency of people to use the word Christian in a careless and non-historical way. Nothing in this argument would preclude liberal Protestants and Catholics from developing and practicing any religion they like.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Christian, Believe, Moving

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• Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you think they are miniscule in comparison to the magnitude of the problem.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Differences, Effort

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• The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.

  Cyndi Lee

  Yoga, Goal, Mind

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• If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Compassion, Guarantees, Path

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• But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

  Merton Miller

  Loss, Suffering, Gains

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• A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Errors, Practicals

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• The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Doctors, Medicine, Way

  "Should You Fire Your Specialist?" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2012.

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• Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

  Rick Riordan

  Sports, Writing, Ifs

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• The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other.

  William C. Bryant

  Determination, Dirty, Hard Work

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• Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

  B. F. Skinner

  People, Crowds, Environment

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• Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

  B. F. Skinner

  Achievement, Society, Essentials

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• Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.

  A. G. Mohan

  Deep Breathing, Long, Focus

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• We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

  John Dewey

  Liberty, Consciousness, Individualism

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, James Gouinlock (2008). “John Dewey The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1925-1927: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and the Public and Its Problems”, p.160, SIU Press

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• If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, People, Messages

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.5, Penguin

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• As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Order, Essence

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• The purpose of our practice is just to be yourself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Being Yourself, Purpose

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• A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Rights, America

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

  Aristotle

  Art, Causes, Study

  Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

  Erich Fromm

  Feelings, Society, Awareness

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Errors, Together, Action

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.162

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• The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Mind, Vision

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.190

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