Quotes by category:Practice

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.

fighting practice art

The meaning of spirituality is to be healthy and happy; to be physically, emotionally and mentally strong. We can't find this with imagination. We must practice.

strong imagination practice

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.

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Patanjali says that we can meditate on anything that our heart desires. The important thing is not what we meditate on, but more that we meditate. And then gradually to meditate more and more on what corresponds to the innermost longing of our heart. The practice of meditation . . . gradually works its magic in stilling the mind. (42)

meditation practice heart

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice...... by Ray Charles

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

hell be-good practice

Life is like a game where you seek to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals. You get better at this game through practice. The game consists of a series of choices that have consequences. You can't stop the problems and choices from coming at you, so it's better to learn how to deal with them.

practice games life

I guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.

practice monday golf

When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you. by Ray Dalio

When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

meditation-and-yoga inspiration practice

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

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Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of hum... by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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According to Shakyamuni Buddha, it's normal for human beings to be anxious, because it's normal for human beings not to understand themselves. When you don't understand yourself, you're uncomfortable and scared. When you realize that you're anxious, Buddha's teaching is to practice being patient with it.

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Dames lie about anything - just for practice. by Raymond Chandler

Dames lie about anything - just for practice.

Raymond Chandler

dames practice lying

The very first practice we [Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean & myself ] did it was like, "Oh ok, I get it." We were jamming on some crazy ass, out of the box, weird time signature riffs and I got it, whereas anyone else who was playing with them recently would have been like, "What? What are you doing?" So I think there's something unspoken between the three of us that makes us Corrosion of Conformity.

crazy practice thinking

I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much.

focus office practice

There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.

practice self people

Religion is not a result of something that you practice. Religion enters in you any moment you relax. Religion is a flowering of relaxation, not a result of practicing. Remember the difference because when you practice you become more tense.

differences practice relaxation

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

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Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now y... by Rembrandt

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

clear practice helping

Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

practice trying knowledge

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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