Practicals Quotes · Page 7

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

— James M. Buchanan

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

— Jean de La Fontaine

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.

— Bertrand Russell

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

— Heinrich Hertz

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

— William Bernbach

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

— Benjamin Disraeli

When you # travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of # rebirth .

— Paulo Coelho

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

— Salvador Dali

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any…

— David O. Russell

Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.

— James C. Collins

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

— Emilia Clarke

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the…

— Dallas Willard

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape…

— Pericles

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or…

— Lemn Sissay

I also believe on a practical level, if you're taking time away from people, besides entertaining them, I think it's important that…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

— Henry Fielding

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical…

— Anonymous

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of…

— Thomas Malthus

Fiat justitia, ruat coelum. (Do the right thing even if the heavens fall.) It's not nearly as naïve a maxim as it…

— Gwynne Dyer

It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can…

— Mao Zedong

Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of…

— Ruth Simmons

Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical…

— Samuel Smiles

Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't…

— Scott Adams

I avoid the carwash when I think it might rain anytime in the near future, which means I drive around the majority…

— Kristin Armstrong

I think the American people would be compassionate and practical. But we need to be talking about assimilation as well, something that…

— Bobby Jindal

Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death…

— Marcel Proust

To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of…

— Joseph Kastein

This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way…

— Aldous Huxley

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor…

— Ayn Rand

So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work,…

— Alan Watts

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.…

— Arthur Balfour

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.

— William Fleming

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

— Ayn Rand

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

— Patanjali

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds

— Nelson Mandela

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

— Anton Chekhov

There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it

— Napoleon Hill

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

— Anonymous