Quotes About Practicality

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

It is amazing how much theory we can do without when work actually begins.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

I need my products to work and be fast! I don't love having 50 different things in my bathroom, like a different cream for every inch of my face. That's so not me.

I can't start a fire with two sticks or hunt rabbits or anything like that.

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

A good laundry room with storage can make life easier.

The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.

The only reason we had an oven at home was because it came attached to the cooker. Mum would keep her frying pans in there and anything else that would fit. Storage was its only use.

I always had a love for kids' clothes, but having your own kids is a better education for what is practical. I used to buy such crazy things for the store that were so much fun but not the most practical.

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.

I'm not a dream crusher. The real world already does enough of that without me getting into the business

Sharpening your logical and practical mental toolbox is not being an atheist or unspiritual.

Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month," he posited, "the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this—or the boy who had . . . received a Rodgers' penknife from his father? Which would be most likely to cut his fingers?

As Bruce Lee said, "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." THE

One of the many curious aspects of American culture is the absence of an "upper" class, a "high" society, an hedonic aristocracy. America since Lincoln has been a heavy, feet-on-the-ground John Wayne society. The triumph of mediocrity and practicality.

Spirituality had little to do with lofty philosophical notions—the things that emerge from thinking—it centered on the hard facts of life.

Common sense often makes good law.

Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to say anything about marriage, and they always remind us.

He had that rarest of all things, common sense.

Wouldn't you suppose that every college in the land would conduct courses to develop the highest-priced ability under the sun? But if there is just one practical, common-sense course of that kind given for adults in even one college in the land, it has escaped my attention up to the present

More than any other single thing, in any case, the practical irrelevance of actual obedience to Christ accounts for the weakened effect of Christianity in the world today, with its increasing tendency to emphasize political and social action as the primary way to serve God. It also accounts for the practical irrelevance of Christian faith to individual character development and overall personal sanity and well-being.

The idea was that when faced with abundance one should consume abundantly – an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy. It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a 'practical' point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.