Quotes About Practicality

In reality, though, most of the time we don't choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.

Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.

I wear chunky sneakers all the time. I cannot walk in heels.

Political leaders often don't recognize the practical uses of imagination and innovative new ideas until such forms are thrust under their noses by bloody hands. —CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Galactic Leadership

What has been made all but impossible by the industrial system is that men and women can attain a livelihood by doing what is both aesthetically and morally sound and economically and practically valid, by a means that allows them both intellectual and spiritual responsibility.

We can pray over the cholera victim, or we can give her 500 milligrams of tetracycline every 12 hours.

Sometimes you have to settle for doing what you can as opposed to what you think you should.

Wishing gets people killed," he often said. "Using your head gets you home.

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was needed .

No point in imagining anything," said Granny. "Things are bad enough as they are.

Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.

Practical' people are as a rule nothing more than men sunk into the groove of daily routine, unable to emerge from a narrow circle of antiquated ideas.

And pockets! With pockets women could conquer the world!

When you grew up in a household where mom would keep the extra ketchup packets from McDonald's and keep them in a drawer just in case there came a day when you couldn't afford to buy ketchup anymore, that gets ingrained in you.

My kitchen is limited at best. I have one drawer. But I make do with what I have; it's taught me to be super efficient in terms of how I clean and how I put things away.

I've always wanted to pull my classic car up directly to my kitchen, get out, and leave the groceries right there.

I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

The "rain bath," as the shower was called, was the simplest, quickest, cheapest, cleanest and withal best bath for people's bath houses; the one which requires the least space, the least time, the least amount of water, the least fuel for warming water, the least attendance, the least cost of maintenance. Standing

Matemati?in çok küçük bölümü pratik yarar sa?lar; o küçük bölüm de oldukça s?k?c?d?r.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

The other real forces urging young people into marriages generally sift down to one of the following: the need for safety, the need to fill some vacancy in themselves, the need to get away from home, the need for prestige or practicality. Safety