Quotes by Practice If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God. Peter Kreeft good-intentionspracticefeelings How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination, we may rightly claim it as our own. ... The way to make material your own is to look for it in yourself. ... It should be a story that only you can tell, as only you can tell it. Peter Selgin practicerootswriting Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God. Peter Kreeft theorypracticeabsence New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations. Peter Senge organizationpracticethinking Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique. Peter Senge learningpracticeknowledge Practice as if its competition, but compete as if its practice. Peter Vidmar competitionifspractice Competition is overrated. In practice it is quite destructive and should be avoided wherever possible. Much better than fighting for scraps in existing markets is to create and own new ones. Peter Thiel competitionfightingpractice My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings: members of species other than our own - or, as we popularly though misleadingly call them, animals. In other words, I am urging that we extend to other species the basic principle of equality that most of us recognize should be extended to all members of our own species. Peter Singer practiceanimalattitude For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock. Peter Wollen photographypracticeart I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice. Peyton Manning nflpracticeplay Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice. Phil Cousineau creativityinspirationpractice Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice. Phil Crane choicespracticedark Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed. Peyton Manning takenblessedpractice Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating. Phil Cousineau readingpracticebook I really do think inspiration comes from day-to-day life. I think there's things that pique our interest - not necessarily aha! moments - but things that just kinda make you raise your eyebrows. And those are often the moments that are the seeds of inspiration. Sometimes they're in a great conversation with friends, sometimes they're things you see live, something you read, a movie trailer you watch... I think inspiration is kind of laid out there. One thing we have to practice is recognizing when it happens, and recording that moment so we can come back to it. Phil Kay inspirationpracticethinking I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice. Phil Jackson practicejobsthinking When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run for Congress, I had to pay first dollar. Phil Roe next-daypracticerunning I don't want to preach, but I really think the rudiments are very important to developing your drumming skills. Many of the patterns I've recorded came from things like paradiddles, flam paradiddles, flam triplets... They might be boring to sit down and practice, but not when you apply them to the drums. Phil Collins skillspracticethinking Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable to far more people than did the more colorful practice of trying to buy them cheap and sell them dear. Philip Arthur Fisher practicetryingpeople The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours. Philip Gilbert Hamerton inspirationpracticelying«156157158159160161162163164165166»
