Practicals Quotes & Sayings

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others. — Martin Fowler

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

Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them. — Will Hobbs

Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the freedom multiplier. — Tim Ferriss

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically. — Arthur Schnitzler

Information upon points of practical politics. — Benjamin Disraeli

There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application ... — Lord Kelvin

Science is practical philosophy. — Rene Descartes

The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere! — Charles Spurgeon

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful. — George E.P. Box

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

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships. — Oswald Chambers

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball. — Ron Luciano

Jnana yoga is practical. — Frederick Lenz

Practical dreamers do not quit. — Napoleon Hill

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. — John Ruskin

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Godliness is practical religion. — Orville Dewey

Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more. — Hyman Rickover

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Everything I did was practical. You have to strip things down and get to the practical stuff. — Gene LeBell

There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it — Napoleon Hill

There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down. — Saul Bellow

Superstition has its practical uses. — Barbara Mertz

Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe. — Charles Fletcher Dole

Politeness is practical Christianity. — Orville Dewey

Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs. — Eric Hoffer

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical. — Richard Hofstadter

The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion — PZ Myers

I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time. — Zooey Deschanel

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

Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated. — John Herschel

I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time. — Johnny Depp

We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings. — Swami Vivekananda

There is nothing so practical as a good theory. — Kurt Lewin

Generosity is a practical expression of Love. — Gary Inrig

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity. — Maria Montessori

He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical. — Les Dawson

Engineering is the art or science of making practical. — Samuel Florman

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Faith is a practical attitude of the will. — John Macmurray

Twins are so practical. It's always nice to have a spare. — Billie Burke

The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically? — Anna Freud

It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical. — Chogyam Trungpa

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur. — Hyman Rickover

A wasted human being
that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion. — Samuel Hopkins Adams

Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see. — Vera Farmiga

When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is truth, but led on ever only to a temporizing less- than-truth ... I stopped. — Laura Riding

Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought. — Vernon Howard

The most practical solution is a good theory. — Albert Einstein

Anger is practical awkwardness. — Charles Caleb Colton

I am only me for practical purposes. — Julian Baggini

I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth. — Ayn Rand

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing more practical than a good theory. — Leonid Brezhnev

I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful. — John Piper

You decide which ones makes more sense, which is more practical and more logical to accept. — Malik Zulu Shabazz

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness. — Alistair Begg

Be a practical dreamer backed by action. — Bruce Lee

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so. — Vin Suprynowicz

I am very practical, but at the same time, I am a dreamer and romantic. — Regina Taylor

Obedience is the highest practical courage. — Charles Spurgeon

Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief. — Steve Pavlina