Quotes About Practicality

In general, I pack really simply. Every shirt that I pack is going to work with every pant that I pack and every sweater that I pack. So, I can mix and match easily.

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the sworn enemy of the right. The Clintons, in other words, while hardly being left, have been defined as the opposite of being right - the enemy of my enemy being my friend.

we always went back to my grandma's pockets, because she carried in them everything you would need to get through the day or start life in a new state. You wanted hard candy, loose change, a little pencil, a bobby pin, a safety pin, a pre-threaded needle, an aspirin, Band-Aids, stamps or rubber bands? She had them on her person at all times. Those pockets carried what are now carried at bodegas.

entre plusieurs opinions également reçues, je ne choisissais que les plus modérées, tant à cause que ce sont toujours les plus commodes pour la pratique, et vraisemblablement les meilleures, tous excès ayant coutume d'être mauvais, comme aussi afin de me détourner moins du vrai chemin, en cas que je faillisse, que si, ayant choisi l'un des extrêmes, c'eût été l'autre qu'il fallu suivre. (3e partie, para 2)

True, it is bad to stab a man in the back, but when one is in a hurry the niceties must sometimes be overlooked.

You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence.

De hecho, si Da Vinci hubiera tenido un mantra, sería algo así como: "Esto funciona en la práctica, pero no en teoría".

You can't get by on hope. It doesn't pay the bills and it doesn't save lives.

You can't go by on hope. It doesn't pay the bills and it doesn't save lives. - Michael St. Pierre

Annabeth has my number,' Sadie said. 'Which, honestly, brother, is a much easier solution than writing invisible hieroglyphs on your friend's hand. What were you thinking?

I care only for the people who are useful to me—and only so long as they are useful," he said on St. Helena.

I don't mind being lord of all I survey but I don't want to have to work at it. It just wouldn't be practical.

Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler's neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.

Todos toman lo que les conviene de las enseñanzas de la Iglesia y dejan de lado aquello que no se adapta a su forma de vida.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

Common sense is a combination of experience, training, humility, wit, and intelligence.

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful"- 1834

Sometimes "creativity" is just common sense.

there's no point in looking for hundred-dollar bills in the street. Why? Because, were there any hundred-dollar bills, someone would already have picked them up.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.