“It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.” PeopleBreakPracticeImpossibleBallsCourtRussiaBreak ThroughRacket Author:Marat Safin
“The pine fought the storm and broke. The willow yielded to the wind and snow and did not break. Practice Jiu-Jitsu in just this way.” WayBreakPracticeWindStormSnowBrokeMmaJiu Jitsu Author:Kano Jigoro
“More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.” SometimesEnoughHandsLostVisionBreakPracticeCommunicationRevolutionWallOvercomingIntelligentRemainsProductionsTheatreDespiteRadicalDenialBranchesSpiteSubtleCollapseTiedSocialistFlirtingExesBerlinBourgeoisAvant GardeBerlin WallBoulevardRussian RevolutionIntermission Author:Patrice Pavis
“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
“...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development. These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges. Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice. And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.” PeopleNeedsMeanSpiritualMovingBeliefChallengesBreakPracticeOur LivesStageDevelopmentLetting GoCrisisPersonal DevelopmentFamiliarCyclesCrossroadsSpiritual PracticeAdoptingStages Of LifeLife Crisis Author:Caroline Myss
“Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.” IfsMeanDoeHas BeensEffortBreakPracticeInformationHabitResearchConsciousTransformationConsistentlyMake Or Break Author:Shiv Khera
“To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.” BreakPracticeBrokenPromiseFraudVocation Author:Mason Cooley
“Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.” WorldLooksLightFacesInterestPrinciplesBreakPracticeBearsQuittingModestyIncline Author:Marcus Aurelius
“I go to practice every day. I really don't have a training camp. In the boxing world, and that's where that came from, almost every time a guy would get out of the ring and he wouldn't break a sweat again until he went to his next training camp. He would do absolutely nothing until he started training for the next fight.” WorldGuyFightingNextBreakPracticeTrainingRingsBoxingCampsSweatAbsolutely NothingTraining Camp Author:Chael Sonnen
“When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity--which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices--what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. We break the illusion that we think our own thoughts, which is not always the case. Some ideas just arrive in our heads.” ThinkingMindIdeasHappensNaturalBreakPracticeCasesMeditationAwarenessIdentityPositionIllusionWitnessMysticalTranscendent Author:James Redfield
“I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.” KidsRoomsAttentionBreakPracticeWrittenCarFrontsBasketballTablesTrainDinnerSupposed To BeSoccerPay AttentionKitchenSeatsClassroomLocationClosetsAirportsKitchen TableBleachers Author:Laurie Halse Anderson