Quotes by Practice I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. Portia de Rossi practiceorderlying When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research and preventive medicine, many regard the human content of these practices as implicit. But the contempt for man that underlies it, when man is used and abused, leads -- like it or not -- to a descent into hell. Pope Benedict XVI used-and-abusedpracticemen Practice peace, change your world. Prem Rawat practiceworld If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice. Plato notableifspractice High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others. . . . If you accommodate questionable practices in others who touch your organization, you risk soiling its reputation. Anybody whose hands aren't clean can get the place dirty. Price Pritchett practicehandsdirty Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. Plutarch practicemenlife With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both individually and in community Pope Benedict XVI communitypracticepeople Adoration outside Holy Mass prolongs and intensifies what has taken place in the liturgical celebration and makes a true and profound reception of Christ possible. I . . . warmly recommend, to Pastors and to all the faithful, the practice of Eucharistic adoration Pope Benedict XVI takenpracticeprofound Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything. Pythagoras actingpracticejustice [On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice. Queen Victoria alcoholpracticedrinking The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity. Queen Victoria queenspracticeanimal Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger. Pythagoras lustpracticesleep You should be able to criticize civil servants for what you think is wrongdoing without being painted as a cop-hater. I don't feel the police are all corrupt, however I do feel they are suffering from institutional racism and there needs to be a top-to-bottom examination of the way they practice and the way they criminalize young black and brown males. The fact that they seem to have backed off from it seems to suggest they realize they overreacted on me and it looks bad. Quentin Tarantino racismpracticethinking Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men. Plato practicemenphilosophy To step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. What was difficult was the work and the practice that went into becoming good at it, because I hadn't had any training. Queen Latifah trainingactingpractice The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides Quentin Crisp californiapracticemen Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love. R. Kent Hughes following-christpracticechristian Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter. R. Buckminster Fuller practicematterideas In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the Bread of Life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God. Rachel Held Evans bread-of-lifepracticerunning In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity. Radhanath Swami journeypracticespiritual«159160161162163164165166167168169»
