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"You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions."
"You need the practice of mindfulness to bring your mind back to the body and establish yourself in the moment. If you are fully present, you need only make a step or take a breath in order to enter the kingdom of God. And once you have the kingdom, you don't need to run after objects of your craving, like power, fame, sensual pleasure, and so on. Peace is possible. Happiness is possible."
"Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."
"Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation."
"The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice."
"I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it."
"You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice."
"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."
"Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material."
"Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute."
"The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives."
"Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows."
"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
"Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing."
"Practice only makes for improvement."
"Here's other quotes and sayings you can motivate yourself with. Practice only makes for improvement."
"The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts."
"Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction."
"Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure."
"Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it."
