Quotes About Practical

Materialism—an attachment to physical goods beyond their practical value—was a trap; a chain to ensnare the foolish with their own greed.

In a network of tens of millions of users, ten thousand retweets doesn't seem like that big a number, but what our data showed is that even that is almost impossible to achieve. For practical purposes, therefore, it may be better to forget about the large cascades altogether and instead try to generate lots of small ones. And for that purpose, ordinary influencers may work just fine.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.

My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.

But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

Physics, Chemistry, and Biology had been replaced by Fundamentals of Industry and Agriculture, because of Chairman Mao's instruction to "combine education with practical experience.

You have to realistic about these things.

You have to be realistic

For all practical purposes, soldiers in the field have the status of slaves, the prisoners of their grand illusions, their training, and their army.

if her hands were full and she was wearing pants with no pockets.

It's also practical. Our survival depends on the goodwill we can generate.

If you want to pick a role model for designing a group's practical rules of engagement, you can't do better than Merton. To start, he coined the phrase "role model," along with "self-fulfilling prophecy," "reference group," "unintended consequences," and "focus group." He founded the science of sociology and was the first sociologist awarded the National Medal of Science.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

I'm progressive, and I'm practical.

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

Having practical proposals that improve people's economic lives is where it's all about in Ohio, and that's what we're focused on.