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Quotes About Practice

Rynn Cormel had run the world during the Turn, his living charisma somehow crossing the boundaries of death to give his undead existence an uncanny mimicry of life. Every move was a careful study of causality. It was highly unusual for so young an undead vampire to be so good at mimicking having a soul. I figured it was because he was a politician and had had practice way before he died.
~ Kim Harrison
You aren't a demon practitioner? No, but they seem to practice me. Trent and Rachel
~ Kim Harrison
Trent dropped his head for an instant, then pulled it up to me. "You aren't a demon practitioner?" he asked as we took the first steps up. I put a hand to my stomach, wondering if this day could get any worse. "No, but they seem to practice me.
~ Kim Harrison
Any physical action, properly studied and practiced, could no doubt be accomplished with a reasonable amount of skill, if not flair.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
People doing dangerous things make mistakes when they're first learning it, and then when they've known it forever.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
~ Konstantin Stanislavski
You will be leaving, of course. Or I could help you. I've had a bit of practice bathing myself and I think I can stumble my way through this.
~ Kresley Cole
Perhaps Court was just an ignorant Scot, but he preferred two things in his surgeons: that they be sober, and that they have lived long enough to have practiced on others before getting to him.
~ Kresley Cole
The practice of the Name turns us in the direction of the light. The practice of the Name removes the dust from our eyes so that we can see the world as it really is: lit up by the light of the guru.
~ Krishna Das
Religion is behavior and not mere belief.
~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Do not force the religion on your family. Show them the beauty of the Religion through your own practice.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!
~ Wei Wu Wei
Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
~ Walter Koenig
Shamanism is not a religion. It's a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman's path can become a way of life.
~ Hank Wesselman
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
~ Benjamin Franklin
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
~ Ramakrishna
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
~ Louis Nizer
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.
~ Rick Warren
To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."
~ Kurt Vonnegut