Quotes About Practice

Although the repetition of a word or phrase is a preparatory practice and is itself not meditation, choosing a word or phrase that honors your belief system can be the linchpin you need for your mediation practice, providing both motivation and philosophical coherency.

We all want results and we want them fast. But, when practicing meditation, impatience is a hindrance.

Experifaith is distinctly different from storyfaith. It does not provide answers to life's big questions. Rather, it proposes a path of discovery through practice, where a person can come to his or her own conclusions. As such, it has more in common with the modern scientific method than storyfaith does, and, when practiced properly, experifaith is mostly verifiable within a community of practitioners.

Not everything that is related to yoga is equally beneficial.

If you want to increase your self-confidence as a yoga teacher very fast – go out there, face your fears, and teach as much as you possibly can!

It's a really simple formula: Your experience + Yoga = New Students.

Children's success in life depends not on whether they can read, but on whether they do

It is the kind of learning you are practising that is important, not the subject-matter you are practising on.

The whole thing starts with a single knot and needles. A word and pen. Tie a loop in nothing. Look at it. Cast on, repeat the procedure till you have a line that you can work with. It's a pattern made of relation alone, my patience, my rhythm, till empty bights create a fabric that can be worn, if you're lucky and practised. It's never too late to pick up dropped stitches... (from "How to Knit a Poem")

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

O talento sem disciplina é como um polvo de patins

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

Even though it was only my second year of practice I had already formulated certain rules about this and one was that it was always the biggest men who went down. (I had, by this time, worked out a few other, perhaps unscientific theories, e.g. big dogs were kept by people who lived in little houses and vice versa. Clients who said 'spare no expense' never paid their bills, ever. When I asked my way in the Dales and was told 'you can't mis it', I knew I'd soon be hopelessly lost.)

I had learned long ago that resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.

resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.

If you want others to believe in something and behave according to those beliefs, you have to set the example by being personally involved. You have to practice what you preach.

Please, sit down, Sharon said with another hair toss. I made a mental note to practice doing that in a mirror the next time I saw one. it seemed a useful skill, right up there with roundhouse kicks.

I made a pleasant discovery. You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and that's just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements.

The more you read, the better you get at it.

I learned early on how to make best use of my time. You know, quality is more important than quantity when it comes to practice time. And unfortunately, I still need to practice a lot.

I don't hold any contempt for people who are practicing law. I know how hard it is, I know how hard they work, and I know some of them who are so unhappy with it.

There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'

The SSA's practice of allowing union activity during normal federal government operations is unfair to seniors and taxpayers.

Good Democrats love America. Good Republicans love America. We need a leader who understands not just the words of unity but the practice of building unity.