“Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of lifestyle, all that sort of thing, very culty - and that, of course, has nothing to do with the practice whatsoever.” WayCertainCoursesPracticeMeditationBuddhismTypeDressesLifestyleRitualInsulted Author:Frederick Lenz
“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.” IfsWayInspirationalDifferentEndsCertainRealizingAbilityMistakePracticeStruggleWalkingBuiltErrorsEdgesIceHillsDifferent WaysMaking MistakesParadoxCoveredSmarterSlow DownStumblingSlipping Author:Daniel Coyle
“It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.” ShouldGovernmentFormCertainPassionPrinciplesPracticeEssentialsBibleGuidesOccasionsTemper Author:John Quincy Adams
“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.” HardHandsEyeCertainFallForgetBehindsPracticeSuccessfulFailingMastersDegreesDenyDrawingPainterHis EyesFacility Author:Walter J. Phillips
“A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the transmission of attention.” SometimesCertainAttentionPracticeStudyTeacherMastersEnlightenedMiraculousTransmission Author:Frederick Lenz
“Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.” DifferentWholeSchoolCertainOrderPracticeTeachingDegreesHierarchyIntroduction Author:Frederick Lenz
“The thing is that what you try to do when you play is you try to play not below a certain level. In other words, it can be a special day where it would be phenomenal, but if it's not below a certain level, that's the goal. You know, that's what you want to do. That's why you practice and so on.” IfsKnowsWantTryingPlayWould BeCertainGoalLevelsPracticeSpecialWhat You WantPhenomenal Author:Itzhak Perlman
“Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.” MenShouldMindTwoCertainPracticeCenturyHe ManExpressionDemandEssentialsErrorsCompositionSmoothRestraintRhymeFreedom Of ExpressionPrecedentSpiritedStimulationEmploying Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required to pass from a nervous sensation to the conception of an external object, which the sensation has aroused. The sensations of our nerves of sense are mere symbols indicating certain external objects, and it is usually only after considerable practice that we acquire the power of drawing correct conclusions from our sensations respecting the corresponding objects.” CertainPracticeObjectsActivityPerceptionIntellectualMereDrawingSensesConclusionNervousSymbolsAcquireSensationsNervesConceptionPeculiarImpressedNervous SystemCorresponding Author:Hermann von Helmholtz
“I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.” PeopleLooksSpiritCertainProcessViewsPracticeGoneAtheismHolyPositive AtheismTonguePoint Of ViewScalesRationalPianoGet BetterHoly Spirit Author:Marjoe Gortner
“There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.” CertainPracticeTheoryDistinctionOppositionDependentTheory And Practice Author:Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
“Eat your vegetables. Brush your teeth. Sweat once in a while. Get plenty of rest. Don't smoke. Laugh more. There are certain tenets to health that are pretty commonsensical and that we all know we should practice routinely.” KnowsShouldCertainLossPracticeLaughingTeethPlentySmokeSweatVegetablesBrushesWeight Loss Book:Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers Source: Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers