Practicals Quotes · Page 8

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

— Peg Bracken

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

— Aristotle

Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action.

— Beth Comstock

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

— Anonymous

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.

— Richard Hofstadter

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

— Ted Dekker

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

— Sylvia Plath

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…

— William James

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its…

— Daniil Kharms

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a…

— Susanna Moodie

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure…

— Truman Capote

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its…

— John Robert Seeley

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

— Plutarch

Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life.

— Karen X. Tulchinsky

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nonviolent Communication is a powerful tool for peace and partnership. It shows us how to listen empathically and also communicate our authentic…

— Riane Eisler

The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd,…

— Lewis Mumford

Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task…

— Richard E. Blackwelder

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real…

— Roberto Unger

Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me…

— Rembrandt

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our…

— Margaret Mead

The amount of our endurance is directly proportionate to the clarity of our vision, so the practical application is we need to…

— Rory Vaden

Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you…

— Tim Ferriss

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical…

— Michael Gungor

A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a…

— Norman Mailer

Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost…

— Arthur C. Clarke

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach…

— James Joyce

I'm working with wind, solar, and biofuels companies as well as with organizations like ACORE [American Council On Renewable Energy], Growth Energy,…

— Wesley K. Wark

There's a side to me that likes to make clothes for everyday. But I also think of fashion as an escape. It's…

— Joseph Altuzarra

We raised the matter of an agreement that was reached at the Growth and Development Summit, which was that we should access…

— Thabo Mbeki

The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States…

— Richard Hofstadter

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

— Edmar Mednis

I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.

— Bob Taft

Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

— Aristotle

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will…

— Immanuel Kant

Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical.

— Stephen Hawking