Top 1200 General Practice Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

One of my constant reminders was, "End practice on a happy note." I wanted the boys to want to come out to practice, and I wanted them to get a certain amount of pleasure out of basketball. It's a game. It should be fun. So I always tried to counterbalance any criticism in practice with a bit of praise. I wanted my players to feel that the worst punishment I could give them was to deny them the privilege of practicing. If they did not want to practice, I did not want them there.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

It was a very limited practice; carefully safeguarded. In 1890, that practice was discontinued.

Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.

Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice.

In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.

Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.

I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

We should be able to bring the practice of meditation hall into our daily lives. We need to discuss among ourselves how to do it. Do you practice breathing between phone calls? Do you practice smiling while cutting carrots? Do you practice relaxation after hard hours of work? These are practical questions. If you know how to apply meditation to dinner time, leisure time, sleeping time, it will penetrate your daily life, and it will also have a tremendous effect on social concerns.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.

My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

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.

Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

When my editors and I at 'Rolling Stone' came up with the idea to do a profile of General McChrystal, I simply just e-mailed General McChrystal's press staff, said we wanted to do a profile, and said if you could give us any time to hang out with the general, that would be great.

Everyday brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.

I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer. It's a beautiful practice that enriches their daily lives.

With Ferrari sometimes, you win or you lose depending on what the mood of the team in general, of the group in general.

We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

If you look at ISIS, General MacArthur, and General Patton, they're spinning in their graves.

I always stayed on before and after practice. I just think that if you want to excel at anything, be it basketball, dance or the piano, you need to practice a lot.

Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'

You come in on practice squad and you know you're not going to play in the game, you know you're not going to get any reps. It's frustrating... you don't want to just practice your whole life. You want to practice to play.

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

I practice yoga every day. The practice calms my spirit, and allows me to be present.

You have to learn to laugh all the time. It's a practice of life. It's a practice of happiness.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

For me, my yoga practice is like putting a one in front of a lot of zeros. Without my practice, everything quickly becomes chaotic.

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

Any religion has to have a practice. When you let it go so far from practice that it just becomes a matter of talk something bad happens.

Lessons are not to take the place of practice, but to make practice worthwhile.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

Boxing’s not that straightforward,” said Eldric. “You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.

The music kind of takes care of itself because we've done all that as preproduction in the practice room. So by the time it gets onstage, each song has about one hundred hours of way too much mothering gone into it. So when you see us play live, that is the product of ninety days of practice, over a year of writing, listening to demos on the weekends after practice.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

The Western Idea of practice is to acquire a skill. It is very much related to your work ethic, which enjoins us to endure struggle or boredom now in return for future rewards. The Eastern idea of practice, on the other hand, is to create the person, or rather to actualize or reveal the complete person who is already there.... Not only is practice necessary to art, it is art.

It's all about practice and more practice. Travel to tournaments, play in them, watch other players.

I usually settle into a routine during the season where I shoot for about 15 or 20 minutes before and after practice, and then do the whole practice.