If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.

We don’t just show up on stage; we bring along the oil of praise in jars of practice and rehearsal so that when the Lord shows up, our worship shines as the light with which...

You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked; it is skill-learnt!

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and...

In the 45 minutes he was at practice, he was the best player on the floor.

Just as novice musicians must spend many hours practicing basic skills like playing scales or mastering difficult passages–and frequently do so in the presence of their teacher, receiving immediate and individualized feedback–so must our students...

Up a set and 2-0 it’s definitely a situation where a little match practice would’ve helped, so I’m disappointed but think I can take some positives from the first set and the start of the...

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.

I thought she should practice. Then, when I heard of her rest issues, I thought she shouldn’t do it.

It makes a difference. Our goal is to be over 70 percent and to do that you have to practice and we put in the time.

You know Mats will never give up. He works so hard in practice and he is the last guy to leave the gym. It’s good for the young guys to see that.

Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong…ever.

An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

Ideally. Ideally you’d like to know at all the positions. I’d like to come out of spring practice with an established starter.

This may be a way for producers to get paid to do something they already practice.

We don’t practice torture, and we don’t believe that others should practice torture. We think that there should be an investigation and those who are responsible should be held accountable.

If you don’t like how others define & label you, then work on your values. Embrace and practice values that you would like to be associated.

English teachers, workshops, and myths try to make writers slow down. We are the ONLY ART on the planet that tells young artists to not practice and do less to get better. Head-shaking in its...

There comes a moment in every life when the Universe presents you with an opportunity to rise to your potential.An open door that only requires the heart to walk through, seize it and hang on.The...

She spent the whole weekend out here practicing, … I’ve never seen anyone practice as diligently. She’s going at it and really focused, not missing a beat, getting ready for Samsung.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

I’d had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

Humanity doesn’t need to be understood, if you can practice it

Microsoft has gone from tying its products to tying the hands of its vendors, … The more Microsoft continues this practice the more consumers are harmed.

I’m so impressed with how Terry runs practice and how the guys are responding. We just have to stay quiet, stay humble and win games. Just go play. We have a very unselfish team.

The normal practice is to select a 15-member squad. If the selectors decide to have an additional member, then the approval of the BCCI is needed.

I’ve watched him get better every year firsthand. It all starts at practice for him and he carries that same determination into games. Those stories you hear about him not missing a shot in practice?...

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

The essence of this practice is that when we encounter pain in our life we breathe into our heart with the recognition that others also feel this. It’s a way of acknowledging when we are...

Listening is a tough skill, but one who practice it becomes The Successful Leader!!!

So even though you have some difficulty in your practice, even though you have some waves while you are sitting, those waves themselves will help you.

He would have had to practice up here for a while, and there is very little to be gained having him play in three games. He can play in Houston as long as they do,...

His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be grateful for this early discipline. It kept him breathing as a boy, provided...

We’ve got to practice a lot of different things this week. We can’t ask Taylor to do some of the things Reggie can do, just from an experience standpoint.

A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in...

To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

[Nutt said Shavers, a touted recruit from Lucas, Texas, and Tate have excelled in practice this week but Bledsoe has not.] Bledsoe has all the talent in the world, … but he needs to come...

(Practice) wasn’t very pretty at times today.

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

He got a blow to the head (Thursday) — that we weren’t aware of — in practice and it seems some of the symptoms which are a concern medically in terms of (a possible concussion)...

There were times when only 10 or 12 guys would show up and go through the motions of a practice. There was no energy and no desire. This was not the place to be.

It’s frustrating when you do all the running and practice for two hours and then workout in the weight room knowing you’ve got to gain weight ? not lose it, gain it. With my metabolism,...

An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible.

Oh, he’s just trying to get an easier practice.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open.