Quotes About Practice

Studies have shown that practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits.

habits are what enable mastery.

practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of improvement, you must create those habits.

practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours.

When new learnings are discovered locally, there must also be some mechanism to enable the rest of the organization to use and benefit from that knowledge into explicit, codified knowledge, which becomes someone else's expertise through practice.

If you want to dwell in the Buddha way And gain natural wisdom, You should always be diligent about making offerings To those who receive and embrace the Dharma Flower.

World-Honored One, now you should preach the Dharma of supreme awakening for our sake. Once we have heard it, we will study and practice it together. World-Honored One, we are determined to gain the insight of a tathagata. What is deep in our hearts the Buddha must already know.

Ananda always wanted to listen and learn, while I was devoted to active practice. This is why I have already managed to attain supreme awakening, while Ananda has been taking care of my teachings. He will take care of the Dharma storehouses of future buddhas, and teach, transform, and develop multitudes of bodhisattvas. Such was his original vow. So now he receives this assurance.

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity.

Is it not strange that men are so keen to fight for religion and so unkeen to live according to its precepts?

Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.

it is the nature of religions to put a higher premium on your proper attention to ritual than on your convenience.

One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Ultimately, it is through concrete communication practices that participation is put into practice, maintained, and evaluated.

The . . . argument of the expert, that the man who is trained should be the man who is trusted, would be absolutely unanswerable if it were really true that the man who studied a thing and practiced it every day went on seeing more and more of its significance. But he does not. He goes on seeing less and less of its significance

Nadira stared at him for another long moment. "Why can't anything be simple with you, Matias?" "Because life is complicated." She'd exhaled and waved him off. "Go. Practice. Work on achieving harmony. I need to pray.

the understanding is capable of being instructed by and equipped with rules, the power of judgement is a special talent which cannot be taught, but can be practised. This is why power of judgement is the specific mark of our so-called native wit, the absence of which cannot be remedied by any schooling.

Many midwives work as employees in large hospital practices, where the techno-medical model of care is still the rule. In practices like these, midwives are used to attract women who desire midwifery care, but they may in fact be under constant pressure to practice within the techno-medical mode.

Any society contains propaganda, but it is important to distinguish this from art and to preserve the purity and independence of the practice of art. A good society contains many different artists doing many different things. A bad society coerces artists because it knows that they can reveal all kinds of truths.

She was her death now, that death which she had so much striven to emulate in life, which she had studied and practised and loved. She had succeeded, and death and she had converged into a single point. Who knew if that was victory or defeat? His last vision was of the white veil that hid her now. After all, and at last, she had become utterly private.

I think one should pay so much attention to technique, don't you? Like learning to draw before you paint.

The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.