Quotes by Practice The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment. Peter Bondra excitementgoalpractice We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden. Pema Chodron burdenpractice It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church. Peter Canisius traditionchurchpractice Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared. Pema Chodron freedompainpractice Many people hope a spiritual practice will let them avoid what they are ashamed of. But when you hide something from yourself, you are going to project it onto your world. You continually find it in others and it becomes the source of prejudices and dogmatic views. On top of that, you feel bad about yourself, because you aren't the loving, open-minded, "spiritual" person you'd like to be. Pema Chodron practicespiritualviews One very powerful and effective way to work with this tendency to push away pain and hold on to pleasure is the practice of tonglen. In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it. Pema Chodron painpowerfulpractice The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance, the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de toledo captured a Turkish pirate ship, but its English consort, 'being wont to seek a voluntary death rather than yield, blew up their ship when they saw resistance useless'. Blowing up their ships, or at least threatening to do so, would become standard pirate practice. Peter Earle pirateyieldpractice Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. Peter Elbow practiceviewsideas The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. Percy Bysshe Shelley practicemindmen We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there. Peter Forsberg practicesportsthinking Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. Peter Drucker practiceinspirationalart The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people. Peter King zeropracticepeople The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been said-that there is a distinctive methodology of science which scientists practice unwittingly, like the chap in Moliere who found that all his life, unknowingly, he had been speaking prose. Peter Medawar practicesciencefacts I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice. Peter Kreeft practicepeoplethinking Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed. Peter Medawar pridepracticepeople Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice. Peter Drucker work-outpracticelooks If self-driving cars are going to work - they're being tested now, as you know - the computers that drive them have to have lots of practice before they're allowed to get out in a real car on the roads. Peter Sagal realpracticeself Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda. Peter Kreeft hypocrisypracticebelieve Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives. Peter Kreeft practiceidolsprayer The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice. Peter McWilliams takenpracticereligion«155156157158159160161162163164165»
