Practice Quotes

Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.

By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.

I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you deceive yourselves'.

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

In the practice of Yoga one can emphasize the body, the mind or the self and hence the effort can never be fruitless.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

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

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

Do not force the religion on your family. Show them the beauty of the Religion through your own practice.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.

Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

I am ever with those who practice Kriya Yoga. I will guide you to the Cosmic Home through your enlarging perceptions.

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.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

A male has the right to wander about as he pleases. He has the right to marry any number of girls. This practice has led to prostitution.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.