Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. E. Waite

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

Adam Smith

Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.

Gary Smith

We will need a good, tough practice to be prepared for that match.

Dallas Willard

See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is a God.Then you can begin to practice Sabbath and that will enable you to re-enter community.You can't have community without Sabbath.

Dallas Willard

The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.

Dallas Willard

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

Cyndi Lauper

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

Craig Adams

You can’t have a normal practice with nine skaters, Until we have more than nine guys, it’s not going to be a regular practice.

David Levithan

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

David Beckham

The secret to my success is practice!

David Beckham

My secret is practice

Dave Van Ronk

If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

Danny Boyle

I was brought up a very strict Catholic and I don't practice anymore or anything.

Billy Graham

You choose sin. You practice sin.

Dogen

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

Dogen

Do not practice buddha-dharma with the thought that it is to benefit others.

Dogen

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

Dogen

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

Dogen

If you want to see things just as they are, then you yourself must practice just as you are.

Dogen

I asked, "What are words?" The tenzo said, "One, two, three, four, five." I asked again, "What is practice?" "Nothing in the entire universe is hidden."

Daniel Pauly

While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue to eat fish as if it were a sustainable practice.

We're resting up. We'll just have another practice instead.

Laura Davies

Why are we practice putting? We've been here since Monday. It makes no sense. It's maddening.

Ram Dass

When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul

We can't slack off in practice this week, we have to stay focused. Now we've got to work even harder.

Kurt Vonnegut

The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.

Kurt Vonnegut

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment

Karch Kiraly

Practice like it's competition and compete like it's another day on the practice court.