Quotes about Practice

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (James 1:22) In

The knowledge of what is good without practicing it, turns frequently to evil. —C. MARTELLI, FENCING MASTER

Battles are the proving grounds of what you already have put into practice.

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward.

And it's frustrating because you've never been taught how to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between your New Year's resolutions and your actual behaviour.

Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as "the ten-thousand-hour rule."