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But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice. — Shunryu Suzuki

Dentopedology is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it. I've been practicing it for years. — Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror — Jonathan Lethem

Love is a lifelong practice. — Bryant McGill

The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work. — Keith Jarrett

I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between. — Becca Fitzpatrick

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding. — Sarah Silverman

Take heed, Miss Mackay, you're too young to be practicing such a talent for flirtation. Someday, some poor soul may fight back. — Heather Graham

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area. — David Guterson

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. — Albert Schweitzer

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence. — Amit Ray

By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred. — Radhe Maa

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha. — Nhat Hanh

When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music. — Ellen Hollman

Every time you are not practicing someone else is. — Boris Becker

They have scarcely finished burying the dead from the last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one. — George R R Martin

(The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.) — Anne Tyler

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. — Brene Brown

If you aren't practicing and playing to be first, then maybe you shouldn't be an entrepreneur. — Robert Kiyosaki

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing. — Merrie Spaeth

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job. — Brooks Robinson

Born again atheist, practicing troublemaker — Morrissey

I'm not a practicing kabbalist. I'm not a spiritual master. I'm not a rabbi. I don't - but it's part of who I am. — John Zorn

Today our churches are filled, but how many are actually practicing Christianity in daily life? — Billy Graham

I've been practicing serial monogamy with one loser after another since I was eighteen. You can't deny I'm an asshole magnet. — Avery Flynn

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast. — Paul Desmond

Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize. — Pope Francis

It takes practice to become proficient at something. Practicing the presence of God will make us good at it. — R. Alan Woods

Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs. — Michael Donaghy

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment. — Byllye Avery

When God made man she was practicing. — Rita Mae Brown

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet. — Scott Ian

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that. — Daniel Hanley

"The more we spend our time 'practicing the presence' of Jesus, the more we become like Him"

~ R. Alan Woods — R. Alan Woods

While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience. — Allan Lokos

Nobody likes practice, but whats worse: practicing or sucking at something? ... Oh give me a fucking break, practicing is NOT worse than sucking. — Justin Halpern

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live. — Beck

If your family are not very practicing, it is on you to create the aura of Islam around the household; revive sunnahs & increase dhikr. — Hlovate

Marked by justice," I say. Sevro rolls his eyes. "What? I can be funny." "Keep practicing. — Pierce Brown

I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces. — Rosa Salazar

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily. — Sergei Bubka

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking. — Sarah Zettel

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me. — Larry Bird

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher

Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain. — Terence McKenna

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this. — Marat Safin

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books. — Laurie Colwin

Rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano. — Dorothy Cannell

You learn to handle the big moments in life by practicing on the little ones. — Mike Huckabee

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend. — Joshua Foer

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy. — Plato

Down the road someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails — Louis MacNeice

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching. — Frances Hesselbein

both practicing restraint. — Robert B. Parker

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles. — William Zinsser

The secret to improving at a skill is to retain some degree of conscious control over it while practicing - to force oneself to stay out of autopilot. — Joshua Foer

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it. — Leon Kass

We should be selfless in our practice as believers — Sunday Adelaja

You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat. — Eric Maisel

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem. — Mary Barnett Gilson

Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug. — Steven Wright

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody's perfect so I stopped practicing. — Steven Wright

whenever you have trouble bringing yourself to meditate, you can recall all the benefits that will come if you keep practicing. — Culadasa John Yates

You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guise of protecting women against sexual discrimination. — Gillian Flynn

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff. — Daniel Goleman

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate. — Carly Fiorina

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind. — Paulo Coelho

It is easy to learn from listening,
easier to learn from observing,
and easiest to learn from practicing. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I wouldn't really worry to much about practicing the yoga of discrimination at this point in your evolution. — Frederick Lenz

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. — Neve Campbell

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy. — Gautama Buddha

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady. — Bruce Lee

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious. — Pete Postlethwaite

to tackle the problem of healthcare costs effectively, we'll need a system in which "everyone is practicing at the top of their license. — Robert Wachter

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no. — Natasha Leggero

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. — Kurt Vonnegut

I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing ... I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton. — Pippa Middleton

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. — Molly Ivins

Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire. — Philippe Petit

You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas. — Elliott Abrams

Either he was suffering a terrible case of gas or he had a pint-size child practicing the trumpet in his back pocket. — David Sedaris

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it. — Philippe Petit

I think she was practicing her sarcasm," said Iko. Thorne — Marissa Meyer

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less. — Ron Jaworski

But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn't rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch. — Alan Chambers

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice. — Will Harvey

Work on practicing your smile because at the end of the day it may be the greatest treasure that you own. — Larry S. Gerovac

Practicing zazen is like gradually (or maybe not so gradually) getting your sight back. — Brad Warner

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard. — Rob Gronkowski

Only you have to keep practicing and remembering. — Frederik Pohl

Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks. — Summer Sanders

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better. — Allen Iverson

Start the daily practice of joyful living. — Bryant McGill

To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance. — Gautama Buddha

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us. — Jerry Bridges

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. — Theodore Hesburgh

After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach. — Kenneth H. Cooper