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“If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope.”

Ifs Littles Action Joy Individual Pleasure Practice Gains Capacity Inner Strength Scope Accord Profundity

Book:For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva

Source: For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva

“Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.”

Should Sound Practice Theory

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.”

Feelings Friendship Accepting Practice Offers Persistence Transience

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.”

Spirituality Results Practice Aim Dramatic Ritual

Author:Stephanie Mills

“So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.”

Art Play Practice Modern Taught Masters Fool Doctors Bills Medicine Mistaken Fool Me

Book:An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

“One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.”

Able Practice Talent Benefits Motivated Violin

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account”

People Wells Practice Serious Duty Accounts Majority Permit Schooled Uneasiness

Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“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.”

Should Government Form Certain Passion Principles Practice Essentials Bible Guides Occasions Temper

Author:John Quincy Adams

“All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.”

Firsts Two Chance Practice Groups Fans Baseball Categories Divided Batting Baseball Fans Batting Practice

Book:How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

“I believe that we learn by practice... it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit.”

Source: Blood Memory

“With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.”

Ifs Thinking Practice Technique Crafts Spite

Author:Paul Gauguin

“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Ends Courses Teach Practice Study Four Teaching Taught Theory Four Years Engineering Unbroken

Author:Charles Kettering

“What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable, and you can help change that. Cruelty is cruelty, and KFC is being cruel in the extreme. I am calling for a boycott of all KFC restaurants until my friends at PETA tell me that you have agreed to be kinder in your practices.”

Years Doe Helping Practice Millions Calling My Friends Extremes Cruelty Restaurants Chickens Civilized Acceptable Kinder Boycott Peta Kfc

Author:Pamela Anderson

“I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.”

Want Believe Self Hard Joy Choices Practice Achieve Habit Discipline Self Control Beginning Of Life Disciplined Life

Author:John C. Maxwell

“If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.”

Ifs Way Difficult Effort Practice Journey Offers Method Profound Manuals Manual Work

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

“Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.”

Way Attitude Accepting Practice Meditation Worthy Developing Friendly Unworthy Neurosis Meditation Practice Making Friends

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom immediately appears... and the all-discerning Fivefold Eye opens wide.”

Persons Eye Able Practice Focus Achieve Wide Nests Discerning

Author:Hakuin Ekaku

“Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.”

Understanding Practice Speech Intellectual Following Cease

Author:Dogen

“In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.”

Space Practice China Shops

Author:Giorgio Armani

“Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.”

Hate Language Practice Contempt Vocabulary Unlearn

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

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

Knowledge Practice Digestion

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.”

Language Silence Practice Speech Moderation Silence Is

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.”

Practice Twenties Polish Workshops

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“Let me recommend to you not to have too great dependence on your practice or memory, however strong those impressions may have been which are there deposited. They are forever wearing out, and will be at least obliterated, unless they are continually refreshed and repaired.”

May Has Beens Strong Memories Practice Forever Let Me Impression Dependence

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“I do not see in what manner practice alone can be sufficient for the production of correct, excellent, and finished pictures. Works deserving this character never were produced, nor ever will arise, from memory alone.”

Character Memories Practice Productions Finished Arise Excellent Sufficient Deserving

Book:The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy : with an Original Memoir, and Anecdotes of the Author

Source: The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy : with an Original Memoir, and Anecdotes of the Author

“In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.”

Thinking May Art Real Eye Practice Industry Labor Assuming Jealous Disguise Employed Idleness Shuffle

Book:The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.”

Ifs Form Artist Practice Constant Imitation Nourishment Crude

Author:Cennino Cennini

“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”

Practice Knowing Heard

Book:Xunzi: Books 7-16

Source: Xunzi: Books 7-16

“All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.”

Men Want Practice Deserve Affection Deceit Defects

Author:Thomas Sprat

“Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.”

Ifs Reality Practice Equal Weakness Drawing Smallest Representation

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.”

Three Mistake Practice Design Foundation Constant Judgement

Book:Letters to Reyna

Source: Letters to Reyna

“Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.”

Causes Practice Despair Findings Universal Permanent Misfortunes Desperation Helplessness

Book:Authentic Happiness

Source: Authentic Happiness

“Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and practices. And each change in the actions of those affected in the first instance will require further adjustments that will gradually extend through the whole of society. Every change thus in a sense creates a "problemfor society, even though no single individual perceives it as such; it is gradually "solvedby the establishment of a new overall adjustment.”

Firsts Humans Kind Whole Use Action Individual Practice Society Conditions Habit Activity Resources Instance Perceive Affected Establishment Adjustment Human Activity

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.”

Humans Heart Christian Christ Practice Mankind Shining Profession Admire Secure Good Work Human Heart Scorn Disparity Antipathy

Author:David Livingstone

“These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.”

Knows Should Practice Cases Know How Personality Critics Philosopher Organize Cult Moderates Obsessive

Book:Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

“The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.”

“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.”

People Thinking Jesus Religious Simple Practice Taught Majors Negative Police Violent Hateful Liberated Negative Thoughts Religious Practices

Author:Richard Rohr

“Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled at its source.”

Desire Process United Practice Source Bliss Fulfilled

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.”

Mind States Spirit Values Powerful Consciousness Practice Creative Meditation Materials Contact Peaceful Bliss State Of Mind Deep Meditation

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.”

Years Seems Ability Practice Equal Degrees Pursuit Pursue Routine

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.”

Giving Art Form Faith Pleasure Common Practice Accomplishment Intensity

Author:Adam Gopnik

“The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.”

Writing Different Term Practice Teaching Activity Aspect Criticism Separation Visuals

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.”

Choices Father Church Practice Elements Married Careful Various Priests Latin Offering Eastern Priesthood Evaluation Celibacy

Author:Angelo Scola

“To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary.”

Enough Practice Theory

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape.”

Wells Practice Worry Shapes Balls Plenty Injury Hitting

Author:Tim Henman

“What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.”

Ifs Thinking Space Effort Practice Middle Approach Artistic

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“Practice ur craft and make it the best it can possibly be-Justin Timberlake”

Practice Crafts Justin

Author:Justin Timberlake

“When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.”

Ideas Done Practice France Good Ideas

Author:Bernard Arnault

“There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits of flexible working. By examining their access strategy, businesses can implement practices that will keep data secure and control access what and from where.”

Needs Practice Benefits Losing Strategy Access Productivity Secure Data Flexible Examining Losing Control

Author:Richard Jackson

“I'm comfortable with that [a week's practice]. I've had numerous weeks of working on it, and a lot of it has been football specific. One week of practice actually, one week of official practice and I'll be more than comfortable.”

Has Beens Practice Week Football Comfort Comfortable Officials

Author:Anquan Boldin

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