Quotes About Practicality

Mayors are really good at dealing with things practically.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

Sometimes in the Premier League, you are in a game where you can't play nice football because you just wouldn't win it.

I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

My dad had given my sister and I our starter car, a red, old 1985 Chevy Blazer. It was so beat up, the taillights would fall off, and we would use red duct tape.

Their only real endowments were soft skills such as a willingness to accept the help of strangers, stubborn practicality, and the ability to live with uncertainty.

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do

The first concern of the architect is to make sure that the house is usable — not to ensure that the house is made of bricks.

Whether you are designing systems or individual modules, never forget to use the simplest thing that can possibly work.

like interviewing a new cleaner. Do you want someone who can give you the history of cleaning and the theory of cleaning, or do you want someone who'll just get down and clean your fucking house? They chose you because they think you'll clean their fucking house.

Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism

It was a plain table, and unadorned like all of her furnishings, some of which she suspected might be of indifferent workmanship. A trivial matter; so long as furniture did what it was supposed to do, nothing more mattered

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

You don't have to go fishing, of course, to fix your motorcycle.

That is impractical, but practicality isn't the whole thing with gloves or with anything else.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle.

Buy good tools as you can afford them and you'll never regret it.

Experience teaches sense. You can't learn it in a college course.