
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
- George Carlin
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -
a practice which is still continued.
- Helen Rowland
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consider adopting the ongoing practice of zero-based gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
He who loves practice without theory
is like the sailor who boards ship
without a rudder and compass
and never knows where he may cast.
- Leonardo da Vinci
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Today Is My Day To Practice Whimsey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
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.
- Ernest Holmes
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
In meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere
is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
I practice keen awareness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Today is my day to practice whimsey,
skip on the beach, and play with the waves,
watch wondrous cloud animals parade my story,
find a magical white bunny down every rabbit hole.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Manage through the uncertainties.
Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices.
Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you:
celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own.
Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is your day to practice whimsey,
skip on the beach, and play with the waves,
watch wondrous cloud animals parade your story,
find a magical white bunny down every rabbit hole.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment
without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania.
Appropriate rituals channel your emotions
and life energy toward the light.
Without the discipline to practice them,
you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.
- Lao Tzu
If you have never experienced the practice
of daily journaling, give it a try. I highly recommend it.
When I say "journaling," I am not referring to a diary
in which to record the events of your life,
I am talking about a place to record your feelings -
a friend with whom to share your troubles, fears, hopes, and dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is a unique and special day.
It is unlike any other day you have ever experienced.
If you assume that today is like every other day,
you will never notice today's uniqueness.
If you practice keen awareness, you will get
to savor today's uniquely wonderful qualities.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A principle is the expression of perfection,
and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,
we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I recognize this in my writing process.
A consistent writing structure opens the door to amazing insights.
I recognize the truth of this in my daily habits.
When I set my keys in the place
I, with practice, always set my keys...
I do not lose them.
In many instances an ordered external structure
can be an invitation for an extraordinarily unfettered,
creative and unbounded inner structure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory'
is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Isaac Asimov
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad,
then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
- Jewel
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream,
the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter,
than the gloom of despair.
- Thomas Jefferson
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory
than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory
in which it lives on as a limiting case.
- Albert Einstein
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
- Albert Einstein
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there.
Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
- Jimmy Carter
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to.
- the movie Interiors
EVERYONE has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
- Harold and Maude (The movie )
You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
- Anonymous
I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.
- the movie The Rescuers Down Under
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
Go ahead, make my day.
- the movie Sudden Impact (1983)
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
I always arrive late at the office,
but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Human beings must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Albert Einstein
Gods always behave like the people who make them.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
Anyone who thinks sitting in church
can make you a Christian must also think
that sitting in a garage can make you a car.
- Garrison Keillor
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact.
And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
- John Lennon
I love deadlines.
I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
- Douglas Adams
The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think.
- H. L. Mencken
Law of Contrariness:
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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