Practicals Quotes · Page 22

The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be…

— Mike Leigh

It is true that the role of the state in the Russian economy may be too big today, but from the fiscal…

— Vladimir Putin

My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.

— David Naylor

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

— George Santayana

I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.

— MaryJanice Davidson

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of…

— Michael Faraday

Only for practical reasons. To find out if I said something stupid in an interview. So I can limit the damage.

— Robert Pattinson

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological…

— Barack Obama

The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all…

— Alan Moore

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become…

— Carl Sagan

Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action,…

— Napoleon Hill

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all…

— John Stuart Mill

I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them…

— Paloma Faith

Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we…

— Stephen Fry

We also knew [ me and Ewan McGregor] that, on a practical level, if there was going to be that much sex…

— Tilda Swinton

Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism,…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview…

— John Michael Greer

Thanks to the ongoing support of the Government of Ontario, RHF, in partnership with the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, has galvanized Ontario’s best…

— Rick Hansen

If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real…

— Wayne Teasdale

The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the…

— Russell Kirk

We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles…

— Felix Adler

Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhancethe true dignity of a prosperous American, do but…

— Herman Melville

We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of…

— Edward Bernays

I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball.…

— Darren Hayes

Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

— William Hunter

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

People may not be impressed by our theological grasp, but they may be impressed by our expressions of practical godliness.

— Alistair Begg

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

— Robert Menzies

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

— Steve McConnell

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

— Peter Medawar

I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking…

— Eric Dickerson

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children…

— Adam Savage

In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.

— Swami Vivekananda

We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between…

— Tilda Swinton

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once…

— Viggo Mortensen

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

— Alan Hirsch

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

— Michael Bloomberg

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer