Quotes About Application

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.

Why did the Lord inspire Mormon (or Moroni or Alma) to include that in his record? What lesson can I learn from that to help me live in this day and age?

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to give you a visa even if you haven't been.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

Information without execution is poverty.

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice

The life-boat may have a tasteful bend and beautiful decoration, but these are not the qualities for which I prize it; it was my salvation from the howling sea! So the interest which a regenerate soul takes in the Bible, is founded on a personal application to the heart of the saving truth which it contains.

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.

My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and that it finds most of its uses after it has been invented, rather than being invented to meet a foreseen need.