Practice Quotes - Page 8

• Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

  Abhinav Bindra

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Talent

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• Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

  Chanakya

  Kings, Home, Wealth

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• Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

  Chanakya

  Husband, Ignorance, Army

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• He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

  Chanakya

  Twenties, Virtue, Invincible

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• Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

  Julius Lester

  Believe, Despair, Have Faith

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• If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.

  Ben Lerner

  Admitting, Kind, Speak

  Ben Lerner (2012). “Leaving the Atocha Station”, p.58, Granta Books

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• Chanting is a significant and mysterious practice. It is the highest nectar, a tonic that fully nourishes our inner being. Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us. It releases such intoxicating inner bliss and enthusiastic splendor, that simply through the nectar it generates, we can enter the abode of the Self.

  Swami Muktananda

  Heart, Self, Making Love

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• Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

  Sam Keen

  Anxiety, Fearless, Shadow

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• If we believe in a theology that doesn't contain doing the works of Jesus, we will not have a practice of Signs & Wonders.

  John Wimber

  Jesus, Believe, Wonder

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• Our passion is to imitate the ministry of Jesus in the power of the Spirit. This requires we must follow Jesus out of baptismal waters, through our personal deserts, and into the harvest. We want to take the ammunition of the balanced evangelical theology with the fire power of Pentecostal practice, loading & readying the best of both worlds to hit the target of making & nurturing disciples.

  John Wimber

  Jesus, Passion, Fire

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• It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight. Technologies, cultures, and climates may change, but our basic human needs and desires - to survive, to care for our families, and to lead happy, purposeful lives - remain the same.' p 5

  Jane McGonigal

  Thinking, Past, Technology

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• The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

  Robert Buettner

  Fighting, Animal, Men

  Robert Buettner (2011). “Overkill”, p.72, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• There are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice.

  John Alexander Dowie

  Christian, Theory

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• Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

  Marcia Angell

  Pain, Should Have, Medicine

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• I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

  Rich Sommer

  Fatherhood, Acting

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• Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.

  John Seely Brown

  Flow, Rail

  Laurence Prusak, Katalina Groh, Stephen Denning, John Seely Brown (2012). “Storytelling in Organizations”, p.80, Routledge

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• Innovation means replacing the best practices of today with those of tomorrow.

  Paul Sloane

  Mean, Best Practices, Innovation

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• Ideas are abundant. Practice giving your ideas away. If you hold onto ideas too tightly, you can convince people (and yourself) that you may not come up with any new ones

  Alex Bogusky

  Ideas, People, Giving

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• When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Moving, Past

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.44, New World Library

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• We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the practice of free-market capitalism. It will provide business and public policy with a powerful new tool for economic development, profitability, and the promotion of the public good.

  Paul Hawken

  Powerful, Thinking, Giving

  "Capital Gains" by Paul Hawken, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Community, Building

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• I don't practice what I preach, I preach what I practice.

  Charles Capps

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• Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far too many instances within Christendom where our traditions and rules are, in practice, more important than God's commands.

  Jerry Bridges

  Religious, Real, Important

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• Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

  Jerry Rice

  Hard Work, Said, Repetition

  Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. August 4, 2010.

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• Be like the fox
  who makes more tracks than necessary,
  some in the wrong direction.
  Practice resurrection.

  Wendell Berry

  Track, Foxes, Resurrection

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.174, Counterpoint Press

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