Quotes of: Practice-makes Keyword

What many refer to as intuition, then, is not the untaught or unteachable but instead is a learned understanding and respect of process, molded by experience and refined over a great deal of time and practice.

Thoughts on Interaction Design

Pretty doll," rasped the dark haired vampire as he went about behind her, and she could feel his ravenous hunger practically radiating off him.

Theodora's Descent

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.

Overkill

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

A Prince of Earth

Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.

Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know

Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.

Paris Letters

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.

Practical Magic

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

Practical Magic

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.

Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer

Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.

Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice

God is a God of purpose. He doesn't wake-up and start dabbling into things; He doesn't practice trial and error. His ways are sure, they may be low but they are always sure.

The Prince and the Pauper

There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

QBQ: The Question Behind The Question

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

The Quotable Thoreau

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

Real Christianity

I like seeing little kids in shopping carts. It's good practice for when they turn 18 & have to spend the rest of their lives in jail cells.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I could practically hear the unspoken ‘good girl’ accompanied by a pat and scratch behind my ears like I was his obedient pet.

Unexpectedly Out of Focus

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .

Us

this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be associated with any goal, concept or belief.

Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style