If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.
Daniel Goleman

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
Isaac Barrow

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
Ray Bradbury

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. Bush

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin Disraeli

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Gottfried Leibniz

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Clinton

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
Albert Pike

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

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

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
Aleister Crowley

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
Bill Watterson

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
Roald Dahl

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.
Tony Dungy

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
Ramakrishna

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.
Tre Cool

You can't hire someone to practice for you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck

But in practice master plans fail - because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community.
Christopher Alexander