Practice Quotes - Page 35

• Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Believe, Preparation

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• I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Pages, Fool

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• Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Self, Criticism

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Wisdom, Age, Youth

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• When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

  C. Wright Mills

  Jobs, White, People

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.17, Oxford University Press

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• Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.

  Derek Bok

  Thinking, Effort, Challenges

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• You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God; for we may be come upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. It is a short road to unselfishness; for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.

  Frederick William Faber

  Home, Exercise, Self

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• The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.

  Jack Kornfield

  Prayer, Ties, Together

  "Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation". Book by Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, 1987.

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• The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

  Allan Kardec

  Principles, Neglect, Intellect

  Allan Kardec (2016). “The Spirits’ Book: The Principles of Spiritist Doctrine”, p.366, Secret Master eBooks

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• In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Wave Of Life, Asking For Help, Silence

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.

  David A. Cooper

  Spiritual, Kindness, Simple

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• A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of facts: by its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a 'natural group.' A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one . . .

  Monique Wittig

  Men, Ideas, Feminist

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• A sadhak (one who does spiritual practice) will not have time to indulge in gossip. They will not feel like talking to anyone in a harsh manner. Those who always indulge in faultfinding will never achieve spiritual progress. Do not harm anyone by thoughts, words or deeds. Be compassionate towards all beings. Ahimsa (nonviolence) is the highest dharma (duty).

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Talking, Indulge In

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• Children, everyone should try to wake up before five in the morning. The ideal time for spiritual practices like meditation and chanting is Brahma Muhurta. During this period, sattvic qualities are predominant in nature. Moreover, the mind will be clear and body energetic.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Morning, Children

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• Children, daily practice of yoga or sun salutations (surya-namaskara) is very good for health and for spiritual practice. Lack of proper exercise is the cause of many of today's diseases. If we can get somewhere in time on foot, always walk instead of taking a vehicle. It is good exercise. Only if we have to go far should we depend on vehicles. Use a bicycle, whenever possible. This will save money, too.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Yoga

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• Writing a diary every evening before going to bed is a good habit. We can record in the diary how much time we have devoted to our spiritual practice. The diary should be written in a way that helps us see our mistakes and correct them. It should not be a mere document of other peoples' faults or our daily transactions.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Mistake, Writing

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• Try not to have any break in chanting the mantra even for a moment. Continue repeating the mantra while engaged in any task. Chanting in the mind may not always be possible at first, so in the beginning, practice japa by moving the lips incessantly-like a fish drinking water.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Drinking, Moving, Water

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• It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting. Try also to inculcate in children the habit of chanting and neatly writing the mantra. This will help to improve their handwriting, too. The book in which the mantra is written should not be thrown around; it should be carefully kept in our meditation or shrine room.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Try to gather the strength to live as brother and sister after one or two children are born. This is essential for reaping the full benefit of spiritual practice and to make spiritual progress through mental restraint.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Spiritual, Brother

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• While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Food, Taste

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• Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

  Pope Gregory I

  Learning, Discipleship, Heard

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• I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

  Millard Drexler

  Beautiful, Best Practices, Apples

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• How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and upon the world. Government, we may now expect to see, not only in theory and in books but in actual practice, calculated for the general good, and taking no more upon it than the general good requires, leaving all men the enjoyment of as many of their natural rights as possible, and no more interfering with matters of religion, with men's notions concerning God, and a future state, than with philosophy, or medicine.

  Joseph Priestley

  Philosophy, Book, Past

  Joseph Priestley (1791). “Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France, &c”, p.145, Birmingham

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• At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.

  James Fenton

  Hymns, Four, Lines

  "Changing rooms" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2002.

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