Quotes of: Spiritual-practice Keyword

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

Karl Jaspers

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

Nancy Kerrigan

There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.

Damien Chazelle

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

Dawn French

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

William Osler

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

Peter Zumthor

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

JR

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

Damien Hirst

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

Jeffrey Kluger

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.

Lupe Fiasco

I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.

Shepard Fairey

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Sun Tzu

Don’t go,” said Cedric. “Murder has made you practically one of the family.

4:50 from Paddington

Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.

The Art of Self-Control

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

Sleep is a shallow death we practice every night.

How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky

Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong.

Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

Apparently loved did weird things to a girl's practical decision-making skills - Matilda

Infinity Bell

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Sufi Thought and Action

...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society.

Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces

Raphael was a bouda and they viewed sex as a fun recreational activity that should be practiced vigorously and often.

Magic Slays