Quotes of: Practical Keyword

With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.

Virginia Postrel

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

Indian Philosophy, Volume 1

But when all was said and done, the love between us in the little bed, as well as in our hearts, was so real I could practically touch it.

Intervention

Any master skill in practice is about comprehending myriad elements and fitting them together in inspired ways that satisfy the objective.

Relevance: Matter More

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.

Shaping the dream

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

The Silkworm

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.

Mastery

The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

The best way to find inner peace is the practice in forbearance.

Love Poems: Love Conquers All

Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.

The Lacuna

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

Leonardo's Notebooks

When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership

Life Simplified!

You cannot stay at the same level as when you first practiced your truth, life won't let you.

Live Your Truth

True leaders are ready to sweat when making rehearsal, than to cry tears when actually practicing. To save the tears, be ready to sweat!

Leaders' Watchwords

In the future, eyeglasses see all directions simultaneously. To be able to use hemiscope, eyes and brain need to practice.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

...after much practice and struggle, you come to feel for yourself that enlightenment is not only possible, but in process.

A Spacious Life: Memoir of a Meditator