Quotes About Practice

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

People say that I can't speak French. C'est pas vraiment placé. I'm getting better every day. I just have to keep practising. That's the truth.

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

We do meditation, spiritual practices in this temporary body. Though this body is temporary, you have to use temporary things to realize the Truth.

The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

Communication comes with practice. As a leader you must speak the truth; listen for understanding; and learn from what you hear and do not hear.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that's how we learn.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

you only know you can do something if you keep on doing it

The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.

Perfection is a thousand mistakes behind curtains.

Sammy dreamed the usual Brooklyn dreams of flight and transformation and escape. He dreamed with fierce contrivance, transmuting himself into a major American novelist, or a famous smart person, like Clifton Fadiman, or perhaps into a heroic doctor; or developing, through practice and sheer force of will, the mental powers that would give him a preternatural control over the hearts and minds of men.

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power…Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you've attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away: it resides in you." Ian Malcolm—Jurassic Park

I reminded myself our lives are made of changes we can't control. Letting little things happen is a good practice.

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