Quotes About Practicality

The only thing I admit I can't do with my long nails done is trying to get my card out of the ATM.

I do loads of one-pot things because I feel like you can't go too far wrong. And I make a lot of soups and casseroles, which is so boring, but it's the only thing I can do!

What interests me is the connection between maths and the real world.

I'm a big fan of good grades. But I am going to suggest to you that you will find that the skills of a student are of somewhat less use to you once you get out into what is sometimes referred to as 'the real world.'

That era of designers being away with the fairies is gone... You've got to live in the real world.

Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

You're gonna find a common theme among my favorite beauty products: I don't like those little sheer things. If I'm putting makeup on, I want it to do the job quickly.

Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you foresee that you need them.

It's easier done than said!

Nilima made her hands into fists and put them on her waist. "Nirmal, you have no idea of what it takes to do anything practical," she said. "You live in a dream world—a haze of poetry and fuzzy ideas about revolution. To build something is not the same as dreaming of it. Building is always a matter of well-chosen compromises.

Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

Practicality rules our perceptions. To survive, our tiny brains need to tame the blizzard of delusion generator information that threatens to overwhelm us. Our perceptions are wondrously flexible, transforming our worldview automatically and continuously until we find safe harbor in a comfortable delusion.

I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

At present there are among Christians modern Stoics who think it is wrong to groan and to weep and even to grieve in loneliness. Such wild opinions generally come forth from men who are more dreamers than practical men, and who, therefore, cannot produce anything else but fantasies.

I don't spend my life getting dressed! I have to put clothes on during the day; I don't get dressed up at all when I'm working. I'll wear jeans, or something very simple.

Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

This armchair strategist never possessed the qualities for true generalship, because he ignored practical problems.

Blessed are ones who are all dressed-up in the outfit of the life's simplicity in reality and the stressed-out are all those who are busy keeping the practicality in totality in life.