Practicality Quotes
46 quotes by 42 authors
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I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade…
— Alan Cranston
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Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated clothes or spend…
— Zoran
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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I had rather ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me.
— George Herbert
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Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
— Paul Engle
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There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
— David Whyte
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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
— Kenneth Lee Pike
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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which…
— Stephen Bayley
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Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene,…
— Evan Davis
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Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end…
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is…
— Peter Zumthor
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Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh,…
— Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of…
— Jim Carrey
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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which…
— Stephen Bayley
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I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a…
— Hunter Hayes
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I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.
— Jeremy Renner
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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.
— Donatella Versace
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During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated…
— Martin Filler
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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who Wrote These Practicality Quotes
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