Quotes About Practical

A newt, she decided, was a useful thing to have around.

Do you know your Bible?' 'Uh, not very well.' 'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.

Engineering is the art of the practical and depends more on the total state of the art than it does on the individual engineer. When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

She often found herself caught in a rapture for minutes at a time, sometimes longer. But someone observed that she was never enraptured while she was cooking breakfast. If she were, she might burn it. Eternity can dovetail into our practical lives. It's possible for us to manage the toast and the rapture.

People were startled to hear that if we don't go to the spirit, the spirit comes to us as neurosis. This is the immediate, practical connection between psychology and religion in our time.

Athena came to represent a very particular form of nous—eminently practical, feminine, and earthy. She is the voice that comes to heroes in times of need, instilling in them a calm spirit, orienting their minds toward the perfect idea for victory and success, then giving them the energy to achieve this. To be visited by Athena was the highest blessing of them all, and it was her spirit that guided great generals and the best artists, inventors, and tradesmen. Under

A clipboard and a hard hat could get you just about anywhere.

So that's why Ivy always used canvas bags . It wasn't because she was especially eco-minded. They were quiet.

It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.

She had the charisma of the sensible.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

I do engineering, not religion.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.

The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfill the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.

Wisdom—quite practical and orthodox—is his base-camp; but he is an explorer. His concern is with the boundaries of life, and especially with the questions that most of us would hesitate to push too far.

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.