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  • Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me for all the rest that I do in my days.

    Interview with the Financial Times, 2002.
  • Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.

    Selfish   Fire   Years  
  • You do not have to practise all that you read. Take one or two things to practise and then it will become a reality to you.

  • I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

  • Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

    Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.385
  • If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

  • How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

    Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1894). “Ben Jonson”
  • South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

  • Practise only as many times as you have breakfast.

  • Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

  • There are only two sorts of doctors; those who practise with their brains, and those who practise with their tongues.

    Doctors   Two   Brain  
    Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses 'Teaching and Thinking'
  • I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture.

    Children   Real   Believe  
    "Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.
  • Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

    Wise   Men   Littles  
  • The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

    Hands   Mind   Example  
  • Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.

    Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 2015.
  • There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

    Art   Pain   Mean  
    Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”
  • We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.

    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • People who practise a religion have been found to be happier, healthier and less stressed than those who don't.

    People   Stressed   Found  
  • I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.

    Jesus   Men   Names  
  • Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

    Summer   Sports   Spring  
  • Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

  • I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from affectation at all costs, as if it were a rough and dangerous reef, and (to use perhaps a novel word for it) to practise in all things a certain nonchalance [sprezzatura] which conceals all artistry and makes whatever one says or does seem uncontrived and effortless.

    Cost   Use   Nonchalance  
  • How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were tobegin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes; and in the afternoon go forth to practise Christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought!

    Christian   Men   Long  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.516, Delphi Classics
  • O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

    Wisdom   Truth   Lying  
    Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)
  • In Australia we can take a playbook back to California from people who have actually adopted best practises, who have seen those practises play out over the years and plan for future droughts.

    Years   Play   California  
    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • Whoever tries to understand the Human Values of Truth, Righteous conduct, Peace, Love and Non-violence properly, who practises these values and propagates them with zeal and sincerity can alone be described as a truly educated person.

  • They only babble who practise not reflection

  • I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

    "Wayne McGregor: Zen and the art of dance". Interview with Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2009.
  • Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.

  • Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

    Rope   Lines   Height  
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