Practise Quotes - Page 7

• Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

  Philippa Perry

  Meditation, Brain, Connections

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I didn't practise it loads when I was at the academy in Spain, but when I got on the ATP Tour it's something I dedicated a lot of time to.

  Andy Murray

  Spain, Dedicated, Academy

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Socialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the highest development. But in practise, it is not a question of the future socialist society, with an established internal equilibrium, but of the given technically and culturally backward country which in the interests of industrialisation and collectivization is forced to export as much as possible in order to import as much as possible.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Socialist Economy, Division Of Labor

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• You don't have to go the gym - just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.

  Deepak Chopra

  Yoga, Steps, Genes

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.

  Michael Marmot

  Thinking, Doe, Way

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• I believe both the mind and the body need to be strong. We practise so hard that even if we hit a saturation point, we can't stop because that is the kind of dedication the sport requires.

  Satnam Singh Bhamara

  Sports, Strong, Believe

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Through Yoga, anybody can attain; it's a God realisation; you just practise Yoga and if you really mean it, then you'll do it. There's Yogis that have done it to such a degree that they're God, they're like Christ and they can walk on the water and materialise bodies and they can do all those tricks.

  George Harrison

  Yoga, Mean, Water

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must practise the principle "to each according to his work" and combine the interests of the state, the collective and the individual, for only thus can we arouse people's enthusiasm for labour and develop socialist production.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Long, People, Historical

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• If you want to be happy, practise it every day

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Want, Want To Be Happy, Ifs

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• There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Warrior, Three, May

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Believe, Self, Denial

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.101

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• From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.

  Jimmy Connors

  Different, Half, Way

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• There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Soul, Mind, Unity

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• Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Hopeful, Substance

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Artist, World

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• One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  One Day, May

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• The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Mirrors, Opposites

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1965). “Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)”, p.130, Univ of California Press

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• I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

  Wayne McGregor

  Mistake, Important, Pieces

  "Wayne McGregor: Zen and the art of dance". Interview with Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2009.

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• Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Indulge In, Vices

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• Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Law, Bars

  Woodrow Wilson (1969). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Give me simplicity, that I may live,
  So live and like, that I may know Thy ways,
  Know them and practise them: then shall I give
  For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

  George Herbert

  Life, Giving, Simplicity

  George Herbert (1709). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.179

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