Practicals Quotes · Page 18

I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen…

— Sam Heughan

A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented.

— Monroe Trout

The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.

— Howard Raiffa

Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does…

— John D. Arnold

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way.

— Pedro Arrupe

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

— Don DeLillo

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.

— Robert Graves

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing…

— Margaret Spellings

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources…

— Patricia Heaton

It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is…

— Donald Miller

What man who carries a heavenly soul in him, has not groaned to perceive, that unless he committed a sort of suicide…

— Herman Melville

Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the…

— Terry Wogan

Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo…

— Karen Armstrong

For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science,…

— Thomas Aquinas

The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

A lot of great thinkers- like Einstein and Newton- come up with their best ideas when they're young because they don't yet…

— George Lucas

So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism,…

— Deng Xiaoping

Realizing that our minds control our bodies while our bodies reflect our minds amounts to understanding the most fundamental aspects of ourselves.…

— Anonymous

You might be able to get a certain sound, and in the studio you certainly look at things under a microscope a…

— John Petrucci

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business,…

— Sinclair Lewis

Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth. In stewardship of the common…

— Gilbert F. White

As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some…

— Gaylord Nelson

And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon…

— Terry Pratchett

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

— John Ruskin

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

— Bertrand Russell

Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to…

— Julie Halston

Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.

— Stephen Kendrick

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific…

— Vannevar Bush

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

— Grace Hopper

Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is…

— Hans Selye

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the…

— H. L. Mencken

The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

[The Outsiders] was very competitive, in the best possible way. Full of love, full of companionship and fellowship, pranks and practical jokes…

— Rob Lowe

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off…

— Clayton Christensen

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.

— John Herschel

As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.

— Richard Lugar

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate…

— Samael Aun Weor

The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?

— Anna Freud