Quotes of: Spiritual-practice Keyword

It's just that you are practiced at persuading, and sometimes it's quite difficult, sir to distinguish being persuaded by you from being knocked down in street and stamped on. Pg.406

Wolf Hall

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.

The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.

You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom

Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness. (Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)

You Were Born for a Reason: The Real Purpose of Life

It's so important to find a daily practice that takes you away from "day to day" to remind you that it's all "ok

Your Simple Path - Find Happiness in every step.

There is no certain way that exists permanently... Moment after moment we have to find our own way.

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

Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.

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

Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations.

Eric Holder

That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand ...

Greg Norman

It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to...

Ian McDiarmid

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing...

Leon Battista Alberti

It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better.

Rick Riordan

After a training camp workout, my body is eager to replace nutrients and energy that are lost during the workout. It's best to have a quick bite about 30 minutes after practice. I like to have yogurt and granola, the combination of carbs and protein ...

Troy Polamalu

Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the fact that each passing moment is the one moment for the practice of freedom.

Time and the Art of Living

Work, and not wishing, is what brings motion and results from your vision. Don’t be lazy. Try and try again, learn and practice, review and refine, then go back to implement again.

Making Success Deliberate

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

Henry Mintzberg

There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the dif...

Phil Jackson

Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won't, and the practices they support and the ones ...

Pauley Perrette

Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.'

Peter York

I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

Steven Heighton