Quotes About Practical

We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

When people have their own money at stake, it's a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.

I am very practical. It's not like I will fall in love with someone standing far away.

I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.

The demand for moral uniformity is more often practical than theoretical, a demand for moral certainty where none is possible. It is, for Oakeshott, an essentially religious demand, and although an individual agent can seek absolutely reliable guidance in faith, this is not an option that is available to the theorist.

But the greatest of these marks of respect was the involuntary homage which Caesar rendered to him, when he made an exception to the contemptuous clemency with which he was wont to treat his opponents, Pompeians as well as republicans, in the case of Cato alone, and pursued him even beyond the grave with that energetic hatred which practical statesmen are wont to feel towards antagonists opposing them from a region of ideas which they regard as equally dangerous and impracticable.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them in practical fashion.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.

You are wise, and know how to apply it.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.

I have no interest in a guy who doesn't know the right end of a screwdriver.

I'm not the sorts to have many hopes. There's no point.

This is a very important kind of step, to think about the fact that much of behavior is rule-bound, and this is what Giddens is thinking about when he says that practical consciousness works for most everyday situations, but there are circumstances in which we begin to become aware that we have internalized a whole number of rule-governed behaviors (1984).

The Midlanders—a great many of them German speaking—carried their pluralistic culture into the Heartland, a place long since identified with neighborliness, family-centered progress, practical politics, and a distrust of big government.

A lifetime of practical and comfortable considerations settled atop the spark inside her like a thick, heavy blanket.

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.