Quotes About Practice

You're never too old—or too young--to start practicing yoga!

I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it. —Vincent van Gogh artist

Of necessity, theirs must often be an interior silence, surrounded as they were for much of the time by noise and restlessness. To make possible true interior silence she told her Sister they would practice

Feel free to pass this on to your friends or family to so all of us can be inspired and motivated together. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle The

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

In times of deep division, great change, and never-ending brokenness, we need brave people of practice to help us keep moving forward.

Faith is not knowledge. It's not static. It's not a "thing" we can grasp. Rather, it's an act, occurrence, mode of being. It's a mix of actions that reflect God in us and through us. It's a myriad of -ing words that are active, tangible, and always in motion. Faith is a verb. It's meant to be practiced.

But is faith really faith until it's tested? It's one thing to claim we have it. It's another to actually put it into practice.

To cast off the delusive way of ordinary consciousness while sitting on a cushion in a quiet room is only the beginning. The student must learn to live in the ordinary world, while yet retaining the quality of his experience of absolute samadhi.

Zen training is a means of enabling us to live our ordinary lives supremely well.

Katsuki Sekida, Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1975; Boston: Shambhala, 2005).

Maybe part of the point is this: To go on when there is no desire to go on. To practice when practice is burdensome.

Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise,there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.

I firmly believe if you want to be a guitar player, you better start on acoustic and then graduate to electric. Don't think you're going to be Townshend or Hendrix just because you can go wee wee wah wah, and all the electronic tricks of the trade. First you've got to know that fucker. And you go to bed with it. If there's no babe around, you sleep with it. She's just the right shape.

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

There are three related ideas, which I will elaborate as we go on. They are imagination, which is the process of bringing to mind things that are not present to our senses; creativity, which is the process of developing original ideas that have value, and innovation, which is the process of putting new ideas into practice.

The beauty of practice is that it transforms us so that we outgrow our original intentions—and keep going! Our motivations for practicing evolve as we mature.

well knew Augustus' practice of recasting ancient religions to include his coming in their traditional prophetic literature. Egomania coupled with absolute power could indeed change the world — but not necessarily for the better. Why doesn't he just write the cursed thing himself? Virgil fumed — silently.

Thousands of repetitions and out of one's true self perfection emerges.

Body practice is the root of spiritual practice. When we calm the body, the mind can expand without limit.

I once asked Master B.P. Chan if the ancient qigong and martial arts masters had superior abilities to those of the present. He said, "In general, yes. But only because they were more patient." ... Most students abandon the practice and look for a new form of "entertainment". But it is precisely at this stage that the most lasting benefits are cultivated.

Carrying water and chopping wood are just as much spiritual practices as reading scriptures.

The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it