Quotes About Practicality

I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.

I am a maker of useful things.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.

If I'm not using something, I tend to sell it and move on, so I'm not too sentimental about hardware synths.

I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Oh, I've never gone off into that 'the room's not the right temperature, take this tea back' stuff. I still scrub my own toilet and vacuum the carpet, and I have to be able to push my trolley around Morrisons and do my shopping.

I'm the least vain person I know. I literally get out the shower, throw a brush through my hair, put jeans and a T-shirt on and head to the Tube and go to work most mornings. It takes seconds.

I'm happy to report you still get nothing you don't need at Motel 6, and, therefore, you don't have to pay for it. I don't need valet parking. If I can drive the old crate 300 miles to the hotel all by myself, I can certainly handle the last nine feet to the parking space.

I think kitchen real estate is very valuable, so something has to perform multiple functions for me to give it space in my drawers.

It was much easier to clean feet than to clean shoes.

People in Ember rarely threw anything away. They made the best possible use of what they had.

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.

I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. That was the kind of person I wanted to be.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

Smart, bold, and practical. I Will Teach You To Be Rich is packed with tips that actually work.

My motto is to keep it simple stupid, work smart not hard.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.