Quotes About Practicality

History, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future.

Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.

A settled and practical people are distinctly in favor of heavy relaxations, placid prolixities, slow comforts.

Let us leave hearts out of the question. Business is business, and business is not carried on with sentimentality like romances.

Theory, however, bends to convenience,

Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

I'm not clever. But I am level-headed, hard-working, dogged.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

I feel like wellies are a classic Glasto go-to, but in the heat the Chelsea boot style was a good call.

I personally would rather layer up than put on a big, heavy coat.

I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

Physical facts could not be ignored. In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Therefore, be not swayed by the fantastic plans of impractical men who think they see ways to force thy gold to make earnings unusually large. Such plans are the creations of dreamers unskilled in the safe and dependable laws of trade. Be conservative in what thou expect it to earn that thou mayest keep and enjoy thy treasure. To hire it out with a promise of usurious returns is to invite loss.

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

Cecilia could have told him that Mr. Fawnhope's intrepidity sprang more from a sublime unconsciousness of the risk of infection than from any deliberate heroism; but since she was not in the habit of discussing her lover with her brother he continued in a happy state of ignorance, himself too practical a man to comprehend the density of the veil in which a poet could wrap himself.

What works in Washington, D.C. or New York City oftentimes doesn't work out in Billings, Montana, or elsewhere in the country.

Figure out what you do the most in your day, then put your money toward those kinds of clothes. If I'm spending a big part of my day driving my kids to and from preschool, I'll buy loungewear or workout clothes that I feel good in.

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.

In Paris, we call the people who make clothing 'couturiers' - they develop new clothing items - but actually, the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.

I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works.

I feel like when I carry a bigger bag, it looks like it's a huge bag because I'm really tiny. But I do think it's important to have the space that you need, because we throw everything in our bags at all times. I think every woman does.