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Quotes About Application

I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.
~ William Ewart Gladstone
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
~ William Glasser
It is one thing to have armour in the house, and another thing to have it buckled on; to have grace in the principle, and grace in the act. So that our instruction will be,
~ William Gurnall
Most are interested in the philosophical only to the extent of finding out what the accepted view is in order that they may accept it and get on to the practical matters.
~ William H. Whyte
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
~ William Hague
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
~ William Hazlitt
Nothing surpasses the need to live out the redemptive spirit of Scripture. Therein lies its heart. Therein one discovers the essence of good application. I
~ William J. Webb
We dont study philosophy, we rather do it.
~ William Lawhead
if you just take the outward, literal words of scripture and try to be obedient to the letter without desiring to be obedient to the full spirit of the passage, then it harms you rather than helps you.
~ William MacDonald
Training focuses on simulations. Coaching lives in the real world with real situations.
~ David Brock
My so-called love for humanity, for instance, isn't something I get to carry around in my heart. It has to find application among the weird, desperate people who populate my daily experience. It has to put on flesh. If it doesn't, I might take pleasure in the warm, fuzzy feeling of my personal, private faith, but it wouldn't be appropriate to call it Christianity.
~ David Dark
If nothing is so useless as an "ivory tower" academic theory that goes unused, nothing is so very practical as the theory that works. At
~ David F. Swensen
It is true, of course, that great preachers are always few and far between in any age. But in every age there should be enough preachers to do the job, preachers who are conscientious, who know what it is to labor over Scripture during the week and then on Sunday deliver its truth with some conviction, with some insight, with some depth, and with some application to life, and in the Holy Spirit's power.
~ David F. Wells
The study of economic lift-off is well developed; touch-down has not been considered. There is an asymmetry here which would invite comment if applied to aviation.
~ David Fleming
Knowledge is not positive or negative, it is always neutral. It is how knowledge is used that is positive or negative.
~ David Icke
Une deuxième couche" was to make sure they gave another coat of paint to a wall
~ David Lebovitz
We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
~ Oswald Chambers
Only a true faith that applies God's Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.
~ R. C. Sproul
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
~ Gifford Pinchot
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
~ Ramakrishna
Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.
~ Drew Houston
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
~ Walter Darby Bannard