Quotes About Practice

learn: v.t. to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, practice, or experience—to commit to memory—to come to know or be aware of. Obviously

Many wear the Robe, but few keep the Way.

This too was hospital practice. To have congratulated her before the afterbirth was out and whole might bring bad luck.

When I wash my feet May all sentient beings Attain the power of supernatural feet With no hindrance to their practice.   Of

And I still believe, to the core of my being, that when you pay attention, cooking becomes a kind of meditation.

Besides, Christianity is not a doctrine to be taught, but rather a life to be lived.

Much is said in our age about irony and humor, especially by people who have never been capable of engaging in the practice of these arts, but who nevertheless know how to explain everything.

Happily, the benefits of training in meditation arrive long before mastery does.

In fact, beginning meditators often think that they are able to concentrate on a single object, such as the breath, for minutes at a time, only to report after days or weeks of intensive practice that their attention is now carried away by thought every few seconds. This is actually progress. It takes a certain degree of concentration to even notice how distracted you are. Even if your life depended on it, you could not spend a full minute free of thought.

The practice of recognizing nondual awareness is called trekchod, which means "cutting through" in Tibetan, as in cutting a string cleanly so that both ends fall away. Once one has cut it, there is no doubt that it has been cut. I recommend that you demand the same clarity of your meditation practice.

Religion is a term like sports ... To speak of sports as a generic activity makes it impossible to discuss what athletes actually do or the physical attributes to do it. What do all sports have in common apart from breathing? Not much. The term religion is hardly more useful.

mere five minutes of practice a day (for five weeks) increased left-sided baseline activity in the frontal cortex—a pattern that, as we saw in the discussion of the split brain, has been associated with positive emotions.

In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.

Since baseball is my favorite sport, it's easy to go out and do what I do.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

My theory is, the more pictures you take, the better you get. It's like a sport. I never wait to get a particular shot because wonderful accidents can happen when you shoot a lot.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.