Quotes of: Practice-makes Keyword

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpe...

Robert Schumann

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done w...

Saint Teresa of Avila

Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesn’t actually affect the external world. Not only is it ineffective, but it is also a very narcissistic practice...

David G. McAfee

Continued observations in clinical psychological practice lead almost inevitably to the conclusion that deeper and more fundamental than sexuality, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possessions, there is a stil...

William Sheldon

I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single clot...

Barbara Kruger

To stop the drug traffic is not the best way to prevent people from using drugs. The best way is to practice the Fifth Precept and to help others practice. Consuming mindfully is the intelligent way to stop ingesting toxins into our consciousness and...

For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life

The literature on ritualistic abuse suggests that ritualistic sexual practices with young children are a characteristic of particularly abusive groups, and that such practices typically occur alongside a diverse range of other abusive practices, such...

Organised Sexual Abuse

None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences w...

Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float awa...

The Making of Prince of Persia

[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily "true" or "false," but as "academic" or "practical," "outworn" or "cont...

The Screwtape Letters

I am writing this book so the doers, the drivers, and the hard workers out there will have a Step-By-Step ultra-practical guide that will teach the specific action steps one must take to start and grow a successful business. If you take action and do...

The Wheel of Wealth - An Entrepreneur's Action Guide

So without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy... So we should be concentrated with our full mind and body on what we do;...

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

Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man — in temperament, character, and capacity — and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no la...

Frank Chodorov

Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your...

Elizabeth Gilbert

You can't possibly be afraid of death, really, you can only be afraid of life.

Client Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications and Theory

You are NOT an abuse survivor or victim. Leave your labels elsewhere because they are no longer serving you.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

Be thankful to those who refuse to help you, for they force you to summon upon your warrior within.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

There is nothing shameful about loving yourself. The shame is in NOT loving the unique and brilliant individual that you are.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

Quoi qu'il arrive, n'en faites pas une affaire personnelle, parce qu'en prenant les choses personnellement vous vous programmez à souffrir pour rien.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

We judge others according to our image of perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.

The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery