Quotes About Practice

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.

A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

To say a prayer doesn't take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it.

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray? My answer is: pray.

Praying is learned by praying.

Prayer is the spiritual gymnasium in which we exercise and practice godliness.

Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.

Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply "blah, blah, blah, " and practice, pure activism.

The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all

clear benefit of writing legal memoranda is that when it comes to learning how to write well, nothing beats practice. As a junior associate you'll find that over time, you'll learn to draft memoranda that present logical, clear analyses of even the most complicated legal issues.

By the 1990s, Ericsson's research was demonstrating2 that the same phenomenon he had first discovered among concert violinists also applied to the creation of innovations: that the cost of becoming consistently productive at creative inventing is ten thousand hours of practice—five to seven years—just as it is for music, athletics, and chess.

See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.