Practical Quotes

1222 quotes by 939 authors

Wonderful!Hold Me Tight blends the best in research findings with practical suggestions from a caring and compassionate clinician. This fabulous book will be of great… — Daniel J. Siegel
Baker has done it again! Building on the core principles that he advanced in Professional's Guide to Value Pricing and The Firm of the Future,… — Thomas Finneran
Im a strong proponent of the restoration of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. Theres a practical reason, though, when it comes to hurricanes:… — George W. Bush
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity. — Arthur Cohn
I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their… — Ayn Rand
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world. — Edward Abbey
When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be… — Annie Leibovitz
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,… — Frederick Jackson Turner
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye… — Chinua Achebe
What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence.Â Authentic philosophizing… — Herbert Marcuse
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. — Karl Marx
Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems… — Louis Althusser
To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge. — Grace Hopper
As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those… — Vannevar Bush
The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems. — Poul Anderson
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's… — Studs Terkel
When problems arise, you will usually find two types of people: whiners and winners. Whiners obstruct progress; they spend hours complaining about this point or… — George Foreman
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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