Quotes About Practical

Our truest and best American antiquity, as the Dominion History of the Union insisted, was the nineteenth century, whose household virtues and modest industries we had been forced by circumstance to imperfectly restore, whose skills were unfailingly practical, and whose literature was often useful and improving.

In the end what you really must covet is a deeper relationship to reality, which will bring you calmness, focus, and practical powers to alter what it is possible to alter.

There is a danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact

It's like interviewing a new cleaner. Do you want someone who can give you the history of cleaning and the theory of cleaning, or do you want someone who'll just get down and clean your fucking house? They chose you because they think you'll clean their fucking house.

To be successful agents of change—of reform—leaders not only must be able to envision a new way forward but also must be practical, with the skill to build broad support for and implement their vision.

But now we have with us some concepts that greatly alter the whole understanding of things. Quality is the Buddha. Quality is scientific reality. Quality is the goal of Art. It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or down-to-earth than what I have been talking about all along—the repair of an old motorcycle.

Simple math and common sense are all you need to do well financially. There

too often, when it comes to the subject of money, common sense is uncommon.

I decided to design a course that mirrored real life.

that Rosemary is to wear white silk and a veil, but Ellen is to be married in navy blue. I have no doubt, Mrs. Dr. dear, that that is very sensible of her

When Diana put her mind to something, nothing was allowed to stand in her way. As she said, "Because I've been given the gift to shine a light into the dark corners of the world, and get the media to follow me there, I have to use it," and use it she did—to draw attention to a problem and in a very practical way to apply her incredible healing gifts to the victims. —Simone Simmons

His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not easy.

Nothing that works is silly.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

The Science of Mind is intensely practical because it teaches us how to use the Mind Principle for definite purposes, such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

The most practical solution is a good theory.