Quotes About Practicality

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again.

I've never liked spending a lot of time on beauty stuff. I have two eye pencils that I use, and that's it.

I lose pens a lot, so I don't use fancy ones.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.

There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture.

We need to concentrate on reality, not what could have been.

There is hardly a single action that we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul. Whereas what we ought to regret is that we no longer posses the spontaneity which made us perform them. In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.

The directions say to add milk and butter, but Cliff thinks if you can afford to add milk and butter you can afford to eat something else.

Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone.

Chanakya says that like rain serves no purpose over a sea, a candle is useless in daylight, it is useless to feed a person who is not hungry and give alms to a rich person. Chanakya says that rain is required in fields and candle is required in darkness; food must be fed to a hungry person and alms must be given to the poor.

The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.

My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'

When you walk into my classroom, I'm going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that's the only way to prepare you for the real world.

I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'

The Lord wants us to follow His righteous life, but yet we have to exist in the 21st century. You can't be going about riding a bicycle and to travel the world... that is not smart.

If you're able to pay your bills, you pay your bills. It's as simple as that.

Maternity bras are the Alcatraz under-wear. If they were a door they'd have a mortise lock, a padlock and the rest.

I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.

My style really comes down to me trying to be efficient by wearing what's going to get me the most out of the world. Whether that means wearing an Armani suit or an H&M dress, that's what I'm going to wear.

Dresses that don't wrinkle are key. They don't take up a whole lot of space and you can throw four into a suitcase.

I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances.