Quotes About Practicality

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on.

You need a screwdriver for screws and a hammer for nails. Anybody that's trying to screw in a nail with a screwdriver... that ain't too smart.

You know you get a tube of toothpaste... such a bloody con. You squeeze and squeeze and nothing more comes out? Well, take a pair of scissors and cut it about an inch and a half from the bottom and it's absolutely packed with stuff! I do that, then cut off the top bit, so I can stick that back on and it doesn't dry out!

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

I think everybody wants to be loved, all the time, but it's not realistic. It's also not realistic, if you're going to be ambitious, in terms of changing the form or evolving.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Save your sweet talk for later, Daphne. The garbage guys just drove up with the new Dumpster." "Shut the lid after you climb in.

This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.

I figured it was probably best for me to leave that bicycle back there for a real emergency.

Whatever the truth is, I don't see how it will help me get food on the table.

It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

I've never offered coupons or deals. I'm not fancy enough to do soup or salads, hot breakfasts, or smoothies.

At the core of the Magnolia brand is the desire to make homes beautiful but with a focus on family and practicality. We want to create spaces that families want to gather in.

Perhaps the most hillarious yet true advice I ever gave on marriage is this one. Don't marry because of Love, marry because of food Love fades, beauty wanes but hungry doesn't

much of that which is taught in the schools is of no value whatsoever in connection with the business of earning a living or accumulating riches.

Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful.

you cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. Actually, you cannot separate anything from contact with the ground. And the contact with the real world is done via skin in the game—having an exposure to the real world, and paying a price for its consequences

They love precision at the expense of applicability.

He did not even bother to have a desk, let alone an office.