Practice Quotes

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Milarepa

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

Swami Sivananda

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

Dalai Lama

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him

George Harrison

The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths,have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.

Aldous Huxley

Mathematical theory, tested in practice and constantly retested, is a valuable aid to play. Mathematics alone will blind you and let others rob you.

Aaron C. Brown

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Ray Douglas Bradbury

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice

Casey Stengel

If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.

Richard A. Nelson

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way.

Pamela Dugdale

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

William Hazlitt

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

William Hazlitt

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

Michael Jordan

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty

Ansel Adams

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice

Minor White

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order

Sir Francis Bacon

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Dalai Lama

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

William Hazlitt

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.

Mark Twain

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

Patanjali

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet.

Henry Mintzberg