Practice Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

  Robert Jarvik

  Heart, Technology, Doctors

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• To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

  Eudora Welty

  Art, Discovery, Looks

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• Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Religion, Forgotten

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

  Kris Carr

  Spiritual, Cancer, Resilience

  "Celebrating a Decade Thriving With Cancer" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.

  Kabir

  Men, Self, World

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• There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

  Hosea Ballou

  Religious, Doctrine, Matter

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• Golf is a game to me. Other players work extremely hard all year long. I work hard before Augusta. I know I get good results when I practice, but it also wears me out. It literally wore me out even when I was in my 20s.

  Fred Couples

  Hard Work, Golf, Player

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• The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Time, Cutting, Reality

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• I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.

  Huston Smith

  Mean, Thinking, Dedication

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• The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.

  John Lahr

  Art, Drama, Magazines

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• The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

  Anthony Burgess

  Ideas, Fiction, World

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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