Quotes About Practical

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most countrymen. Many of the holes they dug and dams they built still hold water and are now often regarded as 'natural.' They are of immeasurable value in the landscape.

feminist theology today, a primary aim of their theology was practical. They wanted to move Church and society to accountability, humanness, justice, virtue, and peace.

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

She had Scottish blood in her and was of a saving turn of mind.

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

Boethius was deeply aware of the practical, humanistic side of Plato's thought in dialogues like the Republic, the Gorgias, and the Crito. He embraced Plato's belief that men need wisdom in order to confront and deal with evil in this world, as well as to prepare for the next. The proof is the reverence with which he invokes the name of Socrates.

Legends, myths, miracles, and symbols: a far cry from the practical and precise hardheaded world Scotland and the Scots had inhabited since the Act of Union.

Let us give, in the first place, what is necessary; secondly, what is useful; next, what is pleasant, and one should add, what is likely to last. We must begin with what is necessary; for a matter involving life appeals to the mind differently from mere adornment and equipment.

The very best method (not practical in most areas) is to cook the cod in clear sea water, adding an extra portion of salt.

as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.

Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

Bismarck's aphorism throws a different and more encouraging light on the problem. It helps us to realize that there are two forms of practical experience, direct and indirect and that, of the two, indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

Since he will be following it through a jungle, however, he should bear in mind the supremely practical guidance provided nearly two thousand years ago: "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

There are indeed practical men who reject the dignified parts of Government. They say, we want only to attain results, to do business: a constitution is a collection of political means for political ends, and if you admit that any part of a constitution does no business, or that a simpler machine would do equally well what it does, you admit that this part of the constitution, however dignified or awful it may be, is nevertheless in truth useless.

Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare. The approach is often based on practical decisions, but I'm interested in the narrative and physical space that music can occupy in a film or play.

Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.

I may be an aspiring actor, but I am also a realist.

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

I would like to become champion, but I'm realistic about it.

You've got to be realistic.

I'm very practical and realistic.

I am a realistic person.