Quotes About Practicality

Since not everyone is looking for something elaborate, I've come up with a range of simple things that everyone can buy and wear.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.

When you're dressing on a budget, simplicity is key.

It frightens you how practical you can be, how cold, even with your own.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

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

Nothing is as inimical to passion as the slow, sensible weighing of practicalities.

come in handy. Everything

clever people will judge the truth according to its usefulness, not validity.

Es [gibt] vielleicht pragmatische Urteile, nicht aber pragmatische Gerechtigkeit.

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.

Common sense is not so common.

Using the existence of a marriage license to determine when the state should protect interpersonal relationships is increasingly impractical.

Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.

I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. The pencil has a symbolic meaning for me. The type of person who carries a pencil around is the type of person who's open to change. Someone who walks around with a pen isn't; he's the opposite.

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.

No hagas lo que quieres ni lo que debes, haz lo que te convenga.

Humans are strange, adaptable animals, and eventually get used to anything, even the impossible or unbearable. ... Terror is tiring, and difficult to keep up indefinitely, so sooner or later it must be replaced with something more practical.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very useful in the real world, that's for sure.

T he test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.