Quotes about practice
practice sound theory
Leonardo da Vinci Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
practice knowing way
Leonardo da Vinci Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.
practice drawing perspective
Leonardo da Vinci Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing.
practice masters
Patrick Rothfuss Practice makes the master.
practice finding-yourself one-day
Laurence Gonzales Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
practice meditation fundamentals
Paul Brunton Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.
practice games
Ken Blanchard Your game is only as good as your practice.
practice breathing training
Kristin Armstrong That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we stop flinching, we practice overriding our Can't.
practice caves littles
Margaret Atwood In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.
practice virtue whole
Marcus Tullius Cicero The whole of virtue consists in its practice.
practice demon habit
Marcus Tullius Cicero Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.
practice names jerusalem
Marcus Tullius Cicero Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.
practice skills constant
Marcus Tullius Cicero Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit
practice giving people
Kinky Friedman All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.
practice democracy communist
Elia Kazan The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
practice gains virtue
B. C. Forbes Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
practice accountability cards
Paul Wellstone Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
practice logic
Pierre Bourdieu Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.
practice games nfl
Pete Carroll We're not going to do anything different for this game since we're not treating this game any different than another game. Every game is a championship game for us, so we'll treat this one, the last one and the next one exactly the same. And that goes for our practices leading up to it as well.
practice intuition technique
Paulo Coelho To become really good at anything,you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive
practice people community
Pope Benedict XVI With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both individually and in community
practice support creative
Terry Tempest Williams This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore.
practice people reason
Ted Williams People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.
practice long african-american
Teju Cole Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there.
practice choices accepted
Shoshana Zuboff Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
practice ideas want
Shunryu Suzuki If you want to study Zen, you should forget all your previous ideas and just practice zazen and see what kind of experience you have in your practice. That is naturalness.
practice able accepting
Shunryu Suzuki The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.
practice giving mind
Shunryu Suzuki In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood
practice two secret
Shunryu Suzuki The secret of Soto Zen is just two words: not always so.... In Japanese, it's two words, three words in English. That is the secret of our practice.
practice expression way
Shunryu Suzuki Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.
practice everyday one-thing
Shunryu Suzuki Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.
practice ideas way
Shunryu Suzuki Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.