Quotes About Practical

I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

I'm a very practical person.

We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.

Abu Mazen has deprived himself of all the practical authorities of government.

Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how to express in a practical way the common good, not in some grand way, some grand and absolute way, but in a very comfortable way.

I'm not sure I approve of theatre as a university course. I think theatre's something you do. I mean, literature is a subject; theatre is practical.

I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?