Quotes on Practice

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways.

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit in the cross- legged position, or to attain enlightenment. It is difficult because it is hard to keep our mind pure and our practice pure in its fundamental sense.

True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.

In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha. Here there is Buddhahood

You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

You don't show up on game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens _x000D_ in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.

I vowed I wouldn't ever let anyone destroy me again. I was going to work at it every day, so hard that I would be the toughest guy in the world. By the end of practice, I wanted to be physically tired, to know that I'd been through a workout. If I wasn't tired, I must have cheated somehow, so I stayed a little longer.

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.