Browsing Topic Best Practice Quotes

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

It’s not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

It’s not about the number of hours you practice, it’s about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice.

If you practice gratitude a little, your life will change a little. If you practice gratitude a lot every day, your life will change dramatically and in ways that you can hardly imagine.

Compassion is not a virtue; it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have, and it’s something we choose to practice.

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice – continuous effort.

Every day that you don’t practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer…education as the practice of freedom…. education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Nonviolence is really tough. You don’t practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.

I pray as part of my mindfulness practice and try to recount my day, all my triumphs and foibles, before I go to sleep at night. These practices keep me calm for the most part.

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

Buddhas don’t practice nonsense.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

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

Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.

The First Amendment isn’t about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we’re willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

You can practice to learn a technique, but I’m more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

Trust, practice, and then release yourself into the goodness of Existence and your life will prove that what you believe, you see.

I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.