Quotes About Application

Talent is not enough - it's about using it in the right way.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Post 10th grade, I came to the northern half of the country. I realized that the usual education did not excite me at all because I felt how will understanding trajectory motions in chemistry help me solve real-life problems?

In my lab, we are constantly asking, 'What's the utility of this pure science that we're doing? Let's nudge it a little bit in a direction where people can connect to it and have some fun and/or help some very serious problems they have.'

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

Many of the basic lessons of business, such as the critical value of customer service or measuring risk against reward when investing capital, have essential application in government, but not in a vacuum.

If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.

Marxism claims, above all, to be a 'scientific' philosophy, one which applies the principles of science to politics and society.

Transfer must be the aim of all teaching in school - it is not an option - because when we teach, we can address only a relatively small sample of the entire subject matter. All teachers have said to themselves after a lesson Oh, if only we had more time! This is just a drop in the bucket! We can never have enough time. Transfer is our greatest and most difficult mission because we need to put students in a position to learn far more, on their own, than they can ever learn from us.

Such is the well-tempered application of the principle of evil. If the system fails to be everything, nothing will remain of it. If thought fails to be nothing, something will remain of it.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing is out of the question.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

When we reduce the notion of "calling" to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

That's all well and good in practice, but how does it work in theory?

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?

We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.

For various reasons, when people engage the Bible, they don't see very readily how it relates to their work.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

To be a true leader, I needed to better understand my unique strengths and how to apply them across the company as we grew.

I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.

During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I've had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.

For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.