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Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

“If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.”

Ifs Knows Two Three Practice Audience One Day Critics Two Days Practise

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.”

Ifs World Looks Country Reason Next Practice Focus Environmental Around The World Worried Meals Over You Shelter

Author:John S. Watson

“There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.”

People Ifs Reason Values Practice Concepts Majority Minorities Homosexual Vow Nun Deviants Deviance

Book:The Homosexualization of America

Source: The Homosexualization of America

“I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.”

People Ifs World Wells Would Be Young Found Practice Taught Only Love Love One Another Lovable

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

Source: Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know

“To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.”

Ifs Wisdom Memories Results Practice Blessing Karma Useless Offering Rebirth Good Memories Reciting Good Karma

Author:Bodhidharma

“If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.”

“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.”

“Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.”

Ifs Men Giving Character Lying Practice Honest Ill Reports Deceit Dishonesty Honest Man

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.”

“Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Ideas Practice Granted Constructive Good Thoughts Happy Thoughts

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.”

Ifs Want Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Accomplish Buddhist Ecstasy Twins

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.”

Ifs Want Kind Wanted School Law Felt Practice Policy Needed Resumes Public Policy Law School Yale

Author:Robert Reich

“Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.”

Ifs Want Use Hands Left Practice Masters Overcoming Difficulty Constant Insignificant Adapted Left Hand

Author:Pliny the Elder

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.”

Ifs Men Should Book Use Remember Turns Evil Social Practice Every Man Newspapers Magazines Speakers Truthful Platforms Exposure Relentless Social Life Hail Severity Benefactors

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities.”

Ifs Responsibility Practice Failing Duty Prepared Educated Assumption Responsibilities In Life

Book:Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy

Source: Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy

“It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable. Yoga practice is an act of adoration to the Lord. You do it because it has to be done. If you have this mental attitude, your selfishness disappears and the benefits come.”

Ifs Feels Done Mistake Attitude Lord Practice Failing Benefits Expectations Yoga Disappear Miserable Selfishness Restless Adoration Mental Attitude Yoga Practice

Author:Dharma Mittra

“If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.”

Ifs Way Writing Practice Failing

Author:Gail Sher

“The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.”

People Ifs Thinking World Different Would Be Religious Practice Enlightenment Cards Description Enlightened Hallmark Religious Practices Hallmark Card

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that, and the resistance is strong, it just means you're not interested. Why put yourself through some sort of torture. It means you weren't that interested.”

Ifs Mean Strong Practice Teacher Resistance Torture Enlightened Not Interested Monk

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One way to develop faith and confidence is simply to practice using it. If I were to ask you whether you're confident that you can tie your own shoes, I'm sure you could tell me with perfect confidence that you can. Why? Only because you've done it thousands of times! So practice confidence by using it consistently, and you'll be amazed at the dividends it reaps in every area of your life.”

Ifs Way Done Motivational Asks Perfect Practice Areas Shoes One Way Ties Consistently Amazed Reap Dividends

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

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