Quotes About Practice

Epictetus, for instance, challenged the idea that we improve solely by reading books and acquiring knowledge. Instead, we should demonstrate that the knowledge has really sunk in: 'A builder does not come and say, "Listen to me talking on the art of building", … but undertakes to build a house and proves by building it that he knows the art.

Both Buddhism and Stoicism strongly encourage us to cultivate understanding and ethical action through spiritual practice. We may not share their precise views, but they certainly seem correct in their assessment that a good life requires more than positive feelings.

Epictetus has this to say about the role of habits: 'Generally then, if you want to make something a habit, practise it; and if you do not want to make it a habit, do not do it, but get in the habit of doing something else. It is the same in relation to things of the mind.

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don't put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

A person who could merely preach but not practise in own life can reach only up to the people who are just parasites and leech.

A person who does not see merely own benefits in life relationships often fails to do the correct calculation of profit and loss also in mathematical tests unless and until practised a lot before.

People who preach others that the CHANGE starts with oneself should also teach HOW? by practising on own words to let their message reach to every person as what they mean by the word 'CHANGE'.

Relationships are being made amongst people not on trust ,but on the worst practice of scratching each other back till both are getting their personal gains met.

They are not motivating ,but just advocating and even preaching that they themselves are not practising in own life and the same is clearly reflecting in their voice ,often nice, and thoughts fraught with advisory words like 'YOURSELF', 'YOUR' and 'YOU' and ,most surprisingly, such people seen on public dais are only growing monetarily.

The theologian must not be content to discuss merely speculative problems about God and man. He must seek above {2} all things to bring the truths of revelation to bear upon human practice. All knowledge has its practical implicate.

Olgun! Wake up!" Her mind was filled with a sense of self-righteous and vaguely drowsy protest. "Sure you weren't, she needled at him. You were just practicing snoring, so you'd be sure to get it right later on, yes?" Olgun's response very strongly resembled an indignant snort.

In our daily lives, moving from struggle to grace requires practice and commitment.

Montaigne: "To practice death is to practice freedom.71 A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave." Being a slave to our job and our status in the world makes it much harder to put our day behind us and surrender to sleep.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love Ã¢â'¬Â¦ by loving. —FRANCIS DE SALES

Hearthcraft functions on a very basic truth: Living your life is a spiritual act.

Humankind seems to instinctively eschew responsibility. But taking responsibility for your spiritual practice, working from the heart of your home outward, is a step toward a more rewarding relationship with the world around you.

The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

It is easy to have some knowledge about honey, wine, and hellebore, of cautery and the use of the knife; but how they should be applied for restoring health, to whom and when, is no less a matter than to be a physician.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.