Quotes About Practice

To be great, practice simplicity and express humility.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

The existence of true religion is predicated on the practice of goodness. Goodness is Godliness. There is nothing else. Religion lies in practice, not in bookish theories.

You don't need to be a great singer to sing, but you have to practice singing to be a great singer.

In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.

To decipher pure theory into intellectual practice is education.

Pickpocket is a sink-or-swim profession, not something that can be taught in the comfort of your living room.

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice

Habit has a kind of poetry.

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

Public Speaking is very easy.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

The trouble with happiness is people don't practice it.

In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day.