Quotes about practice
practice agents medical
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice. Thomas Szasz
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You are what you practice most. Richard Carlson
practice office focus
I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much. Reggie Bush
practice seeking
Practice the precept: find without seeking Robert Bresson
practice arms sides
Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef. Tom Stoppard
practice dies
You have to practice until you die. Taisen Deshimaru
practice perfection holiness
This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love. Swami Vivekananda
practice people unselfishness
Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it. Swami Vivekananda
practice superstitions reason
To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition. Swami Vivekananda
practice faithful mind
Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us. Swami Vivekananda
practice yogi
The Yogi must always practice. Swami Vivekananda
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Practice makes us what we shall be. Swami Vivekananda
practice pounds theory
One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory. Swami Vivekananda
practice firsts
It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards. Swami Vivekananda
practice training mind
If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control. Swami Vivekananda
practice helping purity
External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity. Swami Vivekananda
practice shining sun
All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre. Swami Vivekananda
practice long stories
The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . . Swami Vivekananda
practice trying way
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music. Roscoe Mitchell
practice people sound
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness. Rollo May
practice crafts emptiness
I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft. Rumi
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Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status. Rumi
practice enemy lazy
The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized. Tom Robbins
practice training experts
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it. Tom DeMarco
practice next shapes
The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment. Tom Barrett
practice administration vengeance
System administration is where theory meets practice with a vengeance. Steve Simmons
practice common-sense common
Common sense is not always common practice. Stephen Covey
practice common-sense common
What is common sense isn't common practice. Stephen Covey
practice silence mind
He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever. Thomas Carlyle
practice errors together
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together. Thomas Carlyle
practice two world
Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world. Thomas Carlyle
practice water intellectual
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton's famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age. Steven Johnson
practice people car
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. Steve Martin