Quotes About Practice

The central Christian thesis is to love. Love God, all your heart, mind, soul and flesh and love your neighbor as yourself -- that's the central thesis. It doesn't say anything about hating people anywhere in there, other than that that's not a good thing. And you're even to pray for your enemy. There have been many of us as Christians who have failed to practice the faith as it's called upon and that has been damaging to the faith and I regret that.

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

Gnostics should practice meditation for at least 4 to 6 hours per day; practicing in the morning, the afternoon and almost the whole night until dawn...

Each meditation should last hours - three, four, six hours.

Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

The more I baked, the more I realized that the recipe was the least of my concerns. Far more important were the techniques, which were difficult to explain in a step-by-step format precisely because they depend on touch and feel.

He told me that when he went away on vacation for a couple of weeks he could lose the feel of the dough. It took a day or two to get it back. "I usually measure how good I am by how quickly 'it' returns," he said.

Recognizing that backsliding is natural, he committed himself to repeated practice. Recognizing that some virtues, such as humility and order, were particularly hard for him to achieve, he decided to lower his standards and cut himself some slack. The result was a program that was explicit, realistic, and, as he looked back on it, seemingly effective.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

Human rights advocates can work to extricate themselves from their neoliberal companionship, even as others mark their limitations, in order to restore the dream of equality to its importance in both theory and practice. If both groups are successful, they can save the ideal of human rights from an unacceptable fate: it has left the globe more humane but enduringly unequal.

It's getting harder to hone your craft because of YouTube and the internet. You really need to get out to the clubs to hone your craft. A lot of people these days don't have the patience.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.

Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

To sum up: it's time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing

Like flossing, frequent engagement with a product, especially over a short period of time, increases the likelihood of forming new routines.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.