#practice

Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ↗

— China Miéville

#practical-applications #practice #problem-solving #procrastination #theory

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work. ↗

— Lon Milo DuQuette

#magick #perfectionism #practice #procrastination #procrastination

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#along #carnegie #father #grandfather #large

It's hard to learn to listen to your instincts. It's easier for some who have a natural ability to follow that little voice inside, but for others it takes practice. ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#listen #natural-ability #practice #voice-inside #love

Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practed two hundred times. ↗

— Miriam Peskowitz

#inspirational #motivation #perfection #practice #inspirational

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous. ↗

— Robert Greene

#practice #inspirational

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. ↗

— Dogen Zenji

#attain #enlightenment #fences #plants #practice

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. ↗

— Maxwell Anderson

#before #break #breaks #fill #heart

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#before #eating #getting #go #going

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#end #first #first step #glorious #greatness