Practise Quotes - Page 3

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

Ramakrishna

Wise, Men, Littles

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My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

John B. S. Haldane

Success, Angel, Views

Preface to "Fact and Faith", 1934.

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Pray Meditate Be aware.Stay awake Bow Practise yoga Feel Chant and sing Breathe and smile Relax.Enjoy.Laugh.Play Create.Envision Let Go/Forgive.Accept Walk.Exercise.Move Work.Serve.Contribute Listen/Learn.Enquire Consider.Reflect Cultivate oneself.Enhance competencies Cultivate contentment Cultivate flexibility Cultivate friendship and collaboration Lighten up Celebrate and appreciate Dream Give thanks Evolve Love Share.Give.Receive Walk softly.Live gently Expand.Radiate.Dissolve Simplify Surrender.Trust Be born anew

Surya Das

Letting Go, Dream, Buddhist

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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love,
We should agree as angels do above.

Edmund Waller

Love, Life, Angel

Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184

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Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.

J. C. Ryle

Children, Believe, Learning

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Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.

Derren Brown

Kindness, People, Humanity

"Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, 2009.

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Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

William Wilberforce

Christian, Practice, Giving

William Wilberforce (1871). “A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity. Complete ed”, p.349

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In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.

Lynne Truss

Brother, Hands, Exclamation Marks

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The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all in a silent conversation. Do no harm. Practise compassion. And do not gossip behind anyone's back - not even seemingly innocent remark! The words that come out of our mouth do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time. One man's pain will hurt us all. One man's joy will make everyone smile.

Elif Safak

Hurt, Pain, Men

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We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

Melina Marchetta

Humility, Awkward, Looks

Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.53, Penguin UK

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Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

Cecelia Ahern

Rope, Lines, Height

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He who is a beginner on the way must not be brought to practise the commandments by kindness alone, but must more often be induced to continue the struggle by being rigorously reminded of God's judgment. In this way he will not only be moved by love to desire what is divine, but will be moved by fear to avoid what is evil. For 'I will sing to Thee, O Lord, of mercy and judgment' (Ps. 101:1 LXX). He will sing to God charmed by love, and steeled by fear he will have strength for the song.

Maximus the Confessor

Christian, Song, Kindness

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But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Pierre Laval

Germany, Policy

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I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.

Woody Allen

Work, Play, Events

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Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Art, Morality, Virtue

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Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Men, Auditors, Sophistry

"Essay, On the Athenian Orators" as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 137, 1922.

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You do not have to practise all that you read. Take one or two things to practise and then it will become a reality to you.

Sathya Sai Baba

Reality, Two, Two Things

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To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Mary Astell

Vices, Add, Absurdity

Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

Johannes Tauler

Blessed, Godly, Exercise

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Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Jay Griffiths

Grace, Timing, Individual

"The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

Simon Callow

Answers, Come Up, Mankind

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There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.

William Osler

Doctors, Two, Brain

Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Teaching and Thinking'

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My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted.

Beverly Cleary

Reading, Book, Writing

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The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon.

Harry Gordon Johnson

Girl, Angel, College

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If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Practice, Two, One Day

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