Quotes About Practice

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

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

He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader.

I NOTICE THAT IT TAKES PRACTICE, NO MATTER HOW CLEAR YOUR THOUGHTS ARE. PLUS WHICH THIS IS A LETTER

I always loved the sounds you'd hear at a practice. The silence in the cold rink, no one in the stands and then as the guys skated around, you could hear the blades crunching into the ice. When I would step on the ice for a practice, game or even a public skate, the second I heard that sound of ice meeting metal, I'd smile.

I don't know how one can endure all the sorrows of life without repairing to gratitude. There is such inevitable grief that the practice of gratitude is all that can provide the necessary armor.

The Master said, "Fa-ta, when your mind practices, it reads the Lotus. When it doesn't practice, the Lotus does the reading. When your mind is true, it reads the Lotus. When your mind is false, the Lotus does the reading. When you develop the understanding of a buddha, you read the Lotus. When you develop the understanding of an ordinary being, the Lotus reads you.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.

Eagerness in drinking is a practice injurious to the partaker. Do not haste to mischief, my friend. Your drink is not being taken from you. It is given you, and waits you.

With plenty of practice, we have learnt how to make a ritual of grief, even for those we have never met and know little about.

There is NO such thing as an Ergonomic (device) anything. I could give the best Ergonomic tool / device in the world and if you use it wrong, you will probably get worse.

They were learning that they needed more of everything: more training, more gunnery practice, more antiaircraft guns of every caliber, more ammunition, more supplies, more spare parts.

Saying of the Prophet Practice Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.

Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk. As Prince Dara Shikoh says, in a Persian poem: Do you wish to be included with the Lords of Sight? From speech (then) pass on to experience. By saying 'Unity', you do not become a monotheist; The mouth does not become sweet from the word 'Sugar

El camino Sufi es a través del conocimiento y la práctica, no a través del intelecto y el habla. Como dice el príncipe Dara Shikoh en el poema persa: ¿Deseas ser incluido con los Señores de la Visión? Pasa (entonces) del discurso a la experiencia. Al decir "Unidad", no te transformas en un monoteísta; La boca no se vuelve dulce por la palabra "Azúcar".

action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.

MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.