Practicality Quotes
46 quotes by 42 authors
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I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
— David Byrne
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For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important…
— Barack Obama
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You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but…
— Mick Farren
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Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality…
— Sydney J. Harris
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There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn…
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality,
— Jim Carrey
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So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to…
— Jim Carrey
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We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is nothing so practical as a good theory.
— Kurt Lewin
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Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against…
— Jane Roberts
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Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its…
— Michael Leunig
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Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be sufficient in situations where there is no alternative––to enable…
— Donald A. Norman
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The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the…
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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I have found in my experience that expediency, whether it is practical or not, is an unreliable guide for behavior. Human behavior must be guided…
— King Hussein I
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We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.
— Pete Wentz
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A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality. I look for that special piece that sets the watch apart from the norm.…
— Donatella Versace
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A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
— Elsie de Wolfe
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Look here we shall die! Bear this in mind always & then the spirit within will wake up. Only then will meanness vanish from you,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.
— Christian Louboutin
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And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I…
— Yann Martel
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