Quotes About Practicality

The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Easy-to-grip handles are particularly important when a dish is hot and filled to the brim. The last thing you want is to grab skimpy handles with thick oven mitts and have the whole thing come crashing to your kitchen floor.

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

They were the only kind he ever wore, primarily because they were all exactly alike and when he reached into the sock drawer, he didn't have to worry about whether they matched.

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.

My father used to say that hatred only hurts the hater; it does nothing to affect the hated. Which makes it an impractical emotion.

She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes.

I should love you, for you are charming and talented at many useless accomplishments. But many ladies have charm and accomplishments and are just as useless as you are. No, I don't love you. But I do like you tremendously - for the elasticity of your conscience, for the selfishness which you seldom trouble to hide, and for the shrewd practicality in you which, I fear, you get from some not too remote Irish-peasant ancestor.

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

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

A theory must be tempered with reality.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders.

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.

I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.