Quotes of: Practical Keyword

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most countrymen. Many of the holes they dug and dams they built still hold water and are now often regarded as 'natur...

Designed For Recreation: A Practical Handbook For All Concerned With Providing Leisure Facilities In The Countryside

It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools a...

The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

We depend on computers when we ourselves haven't mastered the principles behind what we are asking computers to design. Glenn Murcutt - A Singular Architectural Practice page 16

Glenn Murcutt: A Singular Architectural Practice: 2002 Laureate Of The Pritzker Architecture Prize

More than happiness or joy or lower blood pressure, the practice of God’s presence gives us meaning. Through this practice we become more closely aligned with Jesus and we learn His desire for us more completely.Life can be hard. The Practice of Th...

Breakfast in the temple

But when it has been shown by the researches of that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me t...

ON THE ANTISEPTIC PRINCIPLE OF THE PRACTICE OF SURGERY

Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure ...

The Practice of Everyday Life

As long as we practice with a vow to help others, we are the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, and we become the leading figure in the Heart Sutra, whether we are a layperson or are ordained, whether whether celibate or married, living in the monaster...

Thunderous Silence: A Formula for Ending Suffering: A Practical Guide to the Heart Sutra

As long as we practice with a vow to help others, we are the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion, and we become the leading figure in the Heart Sutra, whether we are a layperson or are ordained, whether celibate or married, living in the monastery or liv...

Thunderous Silence: A Formula for Ending Suffering: A Practical Guide to the Heart Sutra

In Hinayana Buddhism, practice is classified in four ways. The best way is just to do it without having any joy in it, not even spiritual joy. This way is just to do it, forgetting your physical and mental feeling, forgetting all about yourself in yo...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

David: Would you marry me? Gillian: Well, it wouldn't be very practical, David. David: Practical? No, of course not. Of course not. But then neither am I, Gillian. Neither am I. I'm not very practical at all. Sylvia: You'll miss the plane! Gillian: I...

Shine

There have been applied sciences throughout the ages. ... However this so-called practice was not much more than paper in nearly all of these cases, and the various applied sciences were only lacking a bagatelle, namely proper scientific practice. Th...

Life

Practice no vice because it's trivial; neglect no virtue becasue it's so.

Chinese

Your past history is NOT an excuse.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

We can only think in a language that we master.

The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Jesus-Shock

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living