Practicals Quotes · Page 46

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part…

— Owen Feltham

There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I…

— Terry Pratchett

The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have…

— B. C. Forbes

A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket,…

— Anna Brackett

Young people are looking for meaning and happiness to accompany their first paycheque. Inspire Your Career provides career advice designed to help…

— Marc Kielburger

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist…

— Peter Drucker

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become…

— Dennis Gabor

We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it…

— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has…

— Albert Einstein

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness…

— Patricia Aburdene

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

— Duncan Jones

At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical…

— Gore Vidal

I tend to be a very logical, practical person.

— Sharon Cameron

My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who…

— Amelia Earhart

This film [Doctor Strange] kind of takes that everyday boring reality and really bursts it wide. So we talked a lot about…

— Tilda Swinton

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

Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

— Riane Eisler

Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the…

— John Ruskin

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns…

— Annie Leibovitz

Both the President and Mr Gorbachev have said that they want to see a world without nuclear weapons. I cannot see a…

— Margaret Thatcher

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

— James Mark Baldwin

I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are…

— Zadie Smith

I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence…

— Christian Wiman