Practice Quotes - Page 9

• Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

  Periander

  Perfect, Practice Makes Perfect, Perfect Practice

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• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

  Maya Angelou

  Important, Virtue

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• In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and numerous interesting perspectives on human nature from the yogic and Vedantic points of view.

  Robert S Ellwood

  Views, Interesting, Perspective

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• One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Distance, Meditation

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

  Sam Keen

  Fearless, Learn To Fly

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• Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

  Marc Morial

  Gun, Behavior, Aim

  "Gun litigation follows example of tobacco cases" by Kathleen Koch, www.cnn.com. June 6, 1999.

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• The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Play, Cases

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948). “Championship golf”

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• My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Philosophy, Winning

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• Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Should, Recreation, Chores

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948). “Championship golf”

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• Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Fast Food, Chains

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• I believe the time has come to acknowledge that the practice of routine circumcision rests on the absurd premise that the only mammal in creation born in the condition that requires immediate surgical correction is the human male.

  Thomas Szasz

  Believe, Mammals, Males

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• During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically and psychologically, they were separated from their classmates. Events that seemed earth-shattering to them-- for example, who was demoted from the varsity to the junior varsity -- went almost unnoticed by the rest of the students. In many ways they were like combat veterans coming back from a small, bitter and distant war, able to talk only to other veterans.

  David Halberstam

  War, College, Years

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• Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.

  RuPaul

  Loving Yourself, Loving You

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• Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Spiritual, Thinking, Realization

  Frithjof Schuon, James S. Cutsinger (2004). “Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life”, p.179, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

  Scott Cunningham

  Magic, Use, Causing Change

  Scott Cunningham (2012). “Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs”, p.11, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Magic is natural. It is a harmonious movement of energies to create a needed change. If you wish to practice magic,
  all thoughts of it being paranormal or supernatural must be forgotten.

  Scott Cunningham

  Magic, Wish, Movement

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.17, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Eye, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.51, Storey Publishing

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• I learned to practice smiling when I'm feeling sad, you know?

  Yuna

  Feelings, Feeling Sad, Knows

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• To practice Extreme Self-Care, you must learn to love yourself unconditionally, accept your imperfections, and embrace your vulnerabilities.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Love You, Self, Imperfection

  Cheryl Richardson (2012). “21 Days to Master Extreme Self-Care”, p.19, Hay House, Inc

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• Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

  Geneen Roth

  Meditation, Mind, Tools

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• The best introductory guide to forestry practices and the issues surrounding the preservation of American forests.

  Adam Werbach

  Issues, Forests, Guides

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• Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Kids, Reality

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• Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose of Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is, to construct reliable phylogenies [evolutionary family trees]. In this it has utterly failed.

  Norman Macbeth

  Tree, Purpose, Ancient

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• A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by its nature, the understanding that all phenomenal existence, the universe, or cosmos, that we experience is feminine in nature.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spring, Understanding, Different

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• Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in. It is facing the challenges of life in a non-fearful way.

  Vimala Thakar

  Meditation, Challenges, Way

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