Quotes About Practicality

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If nothing is so useless as an "ivory tower" academic theory that goes unused, nothing is so very practical as the theory that works. At

If what you've done is stupid, but it works..then it really isn't all that stupid.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

Justice is useful when money is useless.

When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.

Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability rather than display.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

I think I've learned that if you have a house, you end up living in the kitchen, so if you have one big kitchen and then enough bedrooms for your family, that's about all you need for a home.

It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise it's just not fashion.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.