“A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between your career and your religious practice.” MindSuccessReligiousCareersBreakPracticeBuddhismPaidBuddhistReligious Practices Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to have to go out and sit in the car, and even in the summertime I'd have to roll up the windows. Because you just couldn't practice a banjo or a fiddle with other people around. Unless they're being paid.” PeopleFirstsUsedPracticeCarWindowPaidInstrumentsHorribleSummertimeFiddleBanjos Author:Steve Martin
“Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.” PastOpportunityChancePracticeLessonsOffersConceptsPaidAddCleanBurdenValuableDebtKarmaDirtyWipeEraseSlateDoingsLearning LessonsOpportunities To LearnLove And ForgivenessWrong Doings Author:Dada Vaswani
“Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.” BigsNextPracticeGenerationsDangerousStandingArmyPaidSpendingStealingNext GenerationBorrowingSpending Money Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.” MenFirstsHousePrayerViewsPayPracticeWeekHe ManMembersPaidCongressOpeningAcceptableAmendmentsSessionViolationFirst AmendmentInterruptionsClausesChaplains Author:Warren E. Burger
“If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.” IfsActorsGivenChanceRoomsActingPracticePaidCraftsGreat ActorsStage ActorsTheatre ActingTheatre ActorsActors And ActingStage ActingActing From Actors Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“Yeah, playing anywhere from three to five gigs a week definitely [helped]. I think all the practice throughout the years and doing what I do paid off.” ThinkingYearsThreePracticeFiveWeekPaidYeahGigsPaid Off Author:Bo Bice
“Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she has incredible respect for translation as a creative, artistic practice - she insists that each English version is 'our book', offered to share her fees with me when she found out I wasn't getting paid for translating her publicity stuff, always asks the editor to credit me, and does so herself whenever she's interviewed. Too good to be true.” IfsDoeBookEnoughAsksFoundStuffPracticeCreativeSharePaidIncrediblesCreditVersionsBeing TrueArtisticEditorsTake MeLunchTranslateTranslationsKoreaPublicityGalleryFeesCreative ArtToo Good To Be True Author:Deborah Smith
“Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.” WritingDoeBookAttentionPracticeDoorsSpringPaidCaughtExcitedBonesFinishedNew Books Author:Natalie Goldberg
“Even in South Africa, the Commonwealth were not doing anything, and their attitude was to tolerate apartheid in South Africa. There was a lot of lip service being paid to the need to stop this practice, but nothing was done.” NeedsDoneAttitudePracticePaidSouthLipsTolerateSouth AfricaApartheidCommonwealthLip Service Author:Mahathir Mohamad
“Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.” DoeRealCertainTermNaturalAbilityPracticePaidExcellencePersistenceNatural AbilityPatience And Persistence Book:Principle-centered leadership Source: Principle-centered leadership