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Quotes About Practical

Speculation buys up, in a very practical way, the intelligence of those involved.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Well, it's a useful room." "Yes, I guess it's useful, all right.
~ John Knowles
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
~ Warren Bennis
In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
~ Benjamin Graham
I'm not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever's at hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I'm not emotional about any of them
~ Leonard Nimoy
Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.
~ C.S. Lewis
My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.
~ David Naylor
Experience trumps brilliance.
~ Thomas Sowell
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
~ George Eliot
Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
~ Edward Tufte
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.
~ Robert Jarvik
Experiment is folly when experience shows the way.
~ Roger Babson
Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.
~ Kate Beckinsale
Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
~ Eric Hoffer
To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
~ Ellis Peters
Faith has to be exercised in the midst of ordinary, down-to-earth living.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
In our day, death was preferable. But my father was a practical man. My weight in gold was less than the expense of the lavish funeral my death would have demanded.
~ Madeline Miller
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
~ Malcolm Fraser
The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers." Man Ray
~ Man Ray
the path of salvation could be walked successfully only by those who had practical, scientific knowledge of the occult function of their own bodies.
~ Unknown
And in the same way, again, are not the thoughts of men and women in the agony of death often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, internal, intestinal aspect, towards that 'seamy side' of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, a side which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?
~ Marcel Proust
Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom.
~ John Milton