Quotes About Practice

Forgetting takes practice…You have to work at it.

What's good about belonging to a religious tradition is that it embeds us in a community, which sustains us in spiritual practice.

In Ekaterinburg, as in many other Russian cities, the sharp and unavoidable disparity between Bolshevik rhetoric and Bolshevik practice was now becoming only too painfully clear.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued.

To overlearn means to continue to study and memorize well past the point of initial mastery, so that one attains automatic recall. The term figures prominently in this section and reappears in the first paragraph of section III of this chapter.

El propósito de nuestras prácticas de hoy es acercarnos a la luz que mora en nosotros. 2 Tomamos rienda de nuestros pensamientos errantes y dulcemente los conducimos de regreso allí donde pueden armonizarse con los pensamientos que compartimos con Dios. 3 No vamos a permitir que sigan descarriados. 4 Dejaremos que la luz que mora en nuestras mentes los guíe de regreso a su hogar.

And the more you do, the better you'll get.

I have practiced risk taking throughout my career because I believe what I can contribute is important. That isn't to say that I don't feel nervous. I have come to accept that trying something new involves discomfort—and taking risks gets easier with practice. I also have reached out for support. My risk-taking ventures haven't always succeeded, but enough of them did. And even when my efforts did not work out, I learned something valuable from trying

Confidence spark If public speaking is a great fear of yours, try practicing first with a few people you are comfortable with, people who you know will be an encouraging audience. Allow for nervousness, but focus on your listeners and their supportive presence. Take a few deep breaths and share something personal that's meaningful for you. Authenticity and vulnerability help create a connection with your audience. A few sessions with a coach might be helpful if you feel the need.

If you're preparing for a presentation, challenge yourself to make your points coherently in a shorter-than-expected time frame. Add more pressure to your practice by handicapping yourself—no notes and a blaring television.

Practice the basics. Run through your presentation again and again. Make sure you know it cold, so you can perform it on autopilot; that way you can turn some of your focus to reading the room instead of having to think about every word you are saying.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Vos 10 000 premières photographies seront les pires.

Tus primeras 10.000 fotos serán tus peores fotos.

Torture when inflicted on children becomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensible practice to extract information, the case for inflicting pain and abuse upon children proves impossible to support.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

THE colonial history of Maryland offers two points of especial interest. Maryland was the first proprietary government in America, and she lays claim to the distinction of having been the first state where religious toleration not only prevailed in practice, but was established by law.

Shiism is already and of itself the spiritual way, the ?ar?qah —that is to say, initiation.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet