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Quotes About Practices

Note: Some aspirants indulge in severe austerities and arduous practices, mastering several techniques and incidentally attaining extraordinary supernatural powers as well. All these are to be shunned as they do not lead to ultimate peace and joy. On the other hand, the path of Kala Jnana described here is a direct path to mukti.
~ Ramana Maharshi
We begin with a discussion of the major driving forces of the Converging Economy. Second, we trace the influence of those forces on the FIRM function and highlight some of the innovative practices companies have enacted in response. Finally, we discuss the concepts, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives that are needed in order to conduct future FIRM research.
~ Randall S. Schuler
In shalom, warring over turf, wealth, or national security are extinct practices. In shalom, family wealth is no longer the point of blessing because living out shalom offers an alternative way for people to view wealth.
~ Randy Woodley
T]he greatest danger to your health is the doctor who practices Modern Medicine." Robert Mendelsohn, M.D. Confessions of a Medical Heretic
~ Raymond Francis
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
~ Johan Huizinga
As we were growing retail, and it was a huge growth phase, it was very important to keep our quality under control. Therefore, it was not just distribution, not just back-office operations, but also the risk-management practices. And these we learned together, supported by technology.
~ Chanda Kochhar
We resort to a series of programs and practices like job rotation, reverse evaluation, and self-management. They're intended to help people tap their reservoir of talent and to preclude the need for weeding out. We never assume there are weeds among us.
~ Ricardo Semler
We have seen that, like the weather, religion "does lots of different things." To claim that it has a single, unchanging, and inherently violent essence is not accurate. Identical religious beliefs and practices have inspired diametrically opposed courses of action.
~ Karen Armstrong
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.
~ Thomas Sprat
I am beginning to see a large-scale introduction of various management tools, philosophies and practices in the service sectors and have a high hope that it will become a global trend.
~ Masaaki Imai
Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.
~ Norm Sloan
We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
To understand the development of Islam and Islamic civilization, we must recognize that the Middle East region into which Islam expanded was a rich repository of centuries of accumulated intellectual exchanges, religious experiences, and administrative practices.
~ William L. Cleveland
It is the premise of this book that we live in a deeply bureau­cratic society. If we do not notice it, it is largely because bureau­cratic practices and requirements have become so all-pervasive that we can barely see them—or worse, cannot imagine doing things any other way.
~ David Graeber
the fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity
~ David Hume
The essence of starting with Kanban is to change as little as possible. You must resist the temptation to change workflow, job titles, roles and responsibilities, and specific working practices.
~ David J. Anderson
As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.
~ David Korten
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
~ Anita Roddick
The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way.
~ Xi Jinping
Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
~ John Adams
The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
~ Kesha
When you make the U-turn to the Universal Presence and apply the Universal practices and principles, your life is changed.
~ Michael Beckwith
A full-throttled deployment of the practices of strategic communication would kill candor and leave truth bereft to fend for herself in the backstabbing night of political bogeys.
~ Nick Bostrom