“Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.” WritingBelieveHumansDiesLiteratureI BelieveHuman BeingsTeachPracticeTransformationEncounters Author:Jayne Anne Phillips
“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.” IfsWayTryingYearsEndsCoursesTeachPracticeStudyFourTeachingTaughtTheoryFour YearsEngineeringUnbroken Author:Charles Kettering
“We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.” WayShouldPersonsMatterTeachPracticeTeachingMessCultivation Book:Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teachings of Falun Gong Source: Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teachings of Falun Gong
“Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion” SinCompassionTeachPracticeStudyStudentsEnlightenmentEssenceProfoundToleranceRelyEmptinessUrgesGrammarRefrainDualism Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna
“To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.” WaySchoolValuesMy OwnTeachPracticeStudyFailingMirrorsInvestmentEnvironmentalUniversityShockingYaleCitingAlma MaterYale University Author:Edward Norton
“I should practice what I preach. It's a lot easier to show and teach people how to love themselves than it is to do it yourself. I still struggle with it sometimes. I wish sometimes I could always feel that I'm good enough, smart enough and gosh darn it, people like me!” PeopleFeelsShouldStillsSometimesEnoughShowsWishTeachPracticeStruggleEasierSmartLike MeGood EnoughDo It YourselfHow To Love Author:Pandora Boxx
“Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.” SelfPhilosophyHelpingForcePovertyTeachPracticeTaughtReasoningSelf Taught Author:Diogenes
“Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation.” WorldShouldTeachPracticeSupportMeditationEconomicMaterialsInvolvedSpreadExpensiveDharmaMaterial WorldMeditation Practice Author:Frederick Lenz
“Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice. No man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books; no one so meanly, as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.” ThinkingMenShouldBelieveLittlesBookUseLightLordTeachPracticeMankindStudentsCommerceSpeculationLord Bacon Author:Samuel Johnson
“Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.” MenWantShouldTryingFirstsEducationLeaderMoralTeachPracticeHe ManTrainSuperiorsEducatePreachingEducating Others Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never intended to be a standalone practice. The true intent of yoga is personal transformation. What we get out of the privilege of teaching prisoners is the opportunity to focus on our own personal development. You can be of service, and, while helping others transform their lives, you have the deeper opportunity to transform your own. What we teach in prison is how we live our lives.” HelpingOpportunityTeachPracticeFocusTeacherOur LivesTeachingDevelopmentPercentYogaStressTransformationPrisonPrivilegeDeeperPersonal DevelopmentHelping OthersPrisonerNinetyAsanaDischargePersonal TransformationYoga Teachers Author:James Fox
“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” IfsThinkingShouldLongEyeRunningBeliefTermOpinionTeachPracticeSuccessfulFailingSucceedCriticismMercyEssenceIndependentInvestingAverageReputationLong TermInvestorsBehaviourWorldlyEccentricUnsuccessfulUnconventionalIndependent ThinkingRashnessWorldly Wisdom Author:John Maynard Keynes
“One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.” WorldMindMaySoulPhilosophyWholeBodyWishTeachPracticeProduceMythFoolishVisibleContemptZealWhole Truth Author:Sallust
“I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.” FeltTeachPracticeDay To DayGita Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.” TeachPracticeTeachingSufficient Author:Eckhart Tolle
“The doctrine of Scripture teaches us about the authority of God's Word. Scripture must be the final rule of faith and practice for our lives. Not our feelings or emotions. Not signs or prophetic words or hunches.” FeelingsEmotionTeachPracticeOur LivesAuthorityFinalsScriptureDoctrinePropheticHunches Author:Joshua Harris
“When you give to your mate, you give to your children. There is no better way to teach love than to practice love. Kids are much better at watching and emulating than they are at listening.” WayGivingChildrenKidsTeachPracticeListeningOur ChildrenYour ChildrenMatesBetter WaysKids Love Author:Gregory J. P. Godek
“I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I don't have an MFA, or a PhD, I tend to approach it just through my own practice.” WritingMy OwnFictionTeachPracticeCreativeTeachingApproachGenreCreative WritingNon FictionPhds Author:Kate Zambreno
“Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.” ShouldWarTeachPracticePsychologyTeacherModernTheoryDemandValuableSupplementsBest TeacherNo WarTheory And PracticeModern Psychology Author:Charles Kettering
“Only years of practice will teach you the mysteries and bold certainty of a real gardener, who treads at random, yet tramples on nothing.” YearsRealTeachPracticeMysteryCertaintyGardener Book:The Gardener's Year Source: The Gardener's Year