Quotes About Practice

Since the mind seems to have a will of its own, how can one learn to keep it in the present? By practice.

using awareness to "discover the technique

Since the mind seems to have a will of its own, how can one learn to keep it in the present? By practice. There is no other way. Every time your mind starts to leak away, simply bring it gently back.

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

The key to being a good shooter is balance. Everything follows balance.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody–somewhere–was practicing more than me.

Doing a lot of reading is not the prerequisite to writing.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?

Fortunately, there's a way to lessen the impact of spiritual amnesia. It's found in practicing the discipline of gratitude, the habit of regularly giving thanks for all God has done. It's such a powerful preventive that God actually commands us to give thanks in every circumstance.4 It's not that God needs the praise. It's that we need the reminder.

It is good to sit a little longer than you want to so you see the part of your mind that resists practice

They can't believe they're just supposed to sit there and watch the breath.

But seeing that the mind has wandered is practice.

We woke up every day at 3:00 A.M., and would sit around the clock—fifty minutes of sitting followed by ten minutes of brisk walking—until 11:00 P.M.

I have proposed that the devotional pattern reflected already in Paul's letters amounts to a distinctive "mutation" in Jewish monotheistic practice, in which Jesus features in an unprecedented way in worship directed to "God.

must underscore the importance of taking account of early Christian worship practice as highly significant evidence that the NT reflects major religious developments, including particularly developments in how "God" is understood.

but a new kind of monotheistic devotional practice in which "God" is worshiped typically with reference to Jesus, and Jesus is reverenced in obedience to "God" and to the glory of this God.

Listening is about curiosity and patience—about asking the right questions in the right way." You simply cannot begin to even think of asking for anything and expect really great results unless you have practiced the art of active listening.

The way you learn to ride is by riding.

Your turn THREE TIMES A WEEK IS A HABIT Planning questions: List some activities you'd like to do more frequently in your life. Choose one specific activity to focus on for the next week. When did you last do this activity?

The way I see it, anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.

insofar as an American thinks that the sex he or she is having is an intimate, private thing constructed within a space governed by personal consent, she or he is having straight sex, straight sex authorized by national culture; she or he is practicing national heterosexuality...

my practice is always to stage incommensurate approaches to a problem/object in order to attend to its instability, density, and openness.