Quotes About Practicality

I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.

I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans.

I log 250 days a year on the road. I need pants that are versatile, easy to clean, and dry in my hotel room if necessary.

I love a pocket. I'm about helping women look as good as possible on the least amount of effort. I want versatility and comfort. Clothes that can go from the office to anywhere. We're always trying on samples at work. If none of us would wear it, chances are no one else will.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

At some point, practicality requires that you reach out to people in the business. You have to take care of business if you value your work.

If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.

I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

Children love making things, but they don't get the same opportunities now as practical subjects seem to be sidelined. I would love to see schools offering much more in the way of practical subjects to let children see what they can do.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.

America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation.

Ritual is about joining vision and practicality, heaven and earth, samsara and nirvana. When things are properly understood, one's whole life is like a ritual or a ceremony.

There were colonial administrators, supremely practical men, who consciously fostered the technique of subduing the lust for violence by diverting it into innocuous sporting channels.

The Bible is useful because it opens our eyes, and because it's highly impractical to walk through life with our eyes closed.

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.