Quotes About Practicality

He parks in the far corner of the lot, explaining that it is more logical to do this and then walk for fifteen seconds than it is to spend fifteen minutes looking for a closer space.

Stand-up peeing in a long flowing garment could lead to various mishaps.

serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

You are totally overromanticizing dirt.

Le persone che aveva consultato gli avevano unanimemente risposto che la matematica, come il restauro degli organi a canne, era sì una bella cosa, ma che a un certo punto bisognava pur trovare un lavoro che desse da mangiare.

He went back to Iowa State, considered changing his major to mathematics, but didn't. It was the consensus of all whom he consulted that mathematics, like pipe-organ restoration, was a fine thing, but that one needed some way to put bread on the table.

Wisdom is knowledge applied.

Aim not, if you are wise, to make water run uphill nor try pulling milk from the udders of a billy-goat.

Never ask a man if he wants a bulletproof vest or a pair of mittens. Just make him put it on.

I was told that I should never lie or cheat or steal, for instance, but my father—a sometimes Jew, he called himself back then—was far more likely to focus on the practical. Never go out in the rain without a hat, he would tell me. Never touch a stove burner, on the off chance it still might be hot. I was warned that I should never count the money in my wallet in public, or buy jewelry from a man on the street

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions.

They wish to build a new and better world, and I would be glad if they could succeed, and if I saw any hope of success I would join them. I ask for their plans, and they offer me vague dreams, in which as a man of affairs, I see no practicality. Is is like the the end of Das Rheingold: there is Valhalla, very beautiful, but only a rainbow bridge on which to get to it, and while the gods ma be able to walk on a rainbow, my investors and working people cannot.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment's silence, Perhaps more so.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's pause, "Perhaps more so.

The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. ... perhaps more so.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful.

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

Knowledge only equates to power if you can figure out what to do with it.

The most important piece of furniture in a house is the garbage can.

The women's way was more effective. They might be ignored, abused, or dominated, but in the end the women were more practical, keeping their eye on whatever prize was within their grasp.