Practical Quotes

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The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical. — Samael Aun Weor
I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want. — Jude Deveraux
Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks.Â It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us… — Henri Nouwen
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a… — Abraham Lincoln
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr
Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the… — Haldan Keffer Hartline
Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from… — Katherine Center
I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world,… — Christian Wiman
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way. What you are in love with,… — Pedro
A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others. — Martin Fowler
Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up? — Kit Williams
In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south,… — Kit Williams
I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the… — Anatoly Chubais
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. — John Cage
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. — Eric Temple Bell
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. — Stanford Moore
When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and… — Paulo Coelho
To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls. — Pafnuty Chebyshev
Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of… — Eric Temple Bell
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress… — Charles Sanders Peirce

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