Practicals Quotes

• When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Eye
  • Differences
  • Scream

• But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Hope
  • Impulse
  • Replaced

• Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Creativity
  • Businessman
  • Practicals

• Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Firsts
  • Half
  • Jokes

• You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

  

  William James
  • Experience
  • Values
  • Cash

• The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.

  

  Melville Fuller
  • Constitution
  • Interpretation
  • Ambiguity

• There is no need for the Russian state to hold such large stakes and we do intend to put our plans into practice. It is not about whether we want it or not, it is about this being practical or not and the best timing. In general, it is practical from at least one point of view - from the point of view of structural changes in the economy.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Needs
  • Economy
  • Plans

• If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Trying
  • Should
  • Expression

• Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.

  

  Will Hobbs
  • Dream
  • Practicals

• You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Mean
  • Ends
  • Junk

• Dr Sue Johnson is the most original contributor to couples therapy to come along in the last thirty years. This book will touch your heart, stimulate your mind and give you practical strategies for improving your relationship.

  

  William J Doherty
  • Giving
  • Relationship
  • Couple

• Jamie Oliver's lunch is soup, half a papaya with lime, ciabatta with mozzarella and prosciutto. The dear boy is not sharing the same planet as the rest of us. Is this lunacy supposed to be a practical suggestion for a harassed housewife trying to drag her children off to school?

  

  Terry Wogan
  • School
  • Supposed
  • Papaya

• For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.

  

  George E. P. Box
  • Hands
  • Scientist
  • Hypotheses

• The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Writing
  • Political
  • Mean

• "Sense of justice is o­ne of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world."

  

  Sarojini Naidu
  • World
  • Justice
  • Wonderful

• It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.

  

  William Benton Clulow
  • Advantage
  • Command
  • Contempt

• True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.

  

  William James
  • Ideas
  • Differences
  • Verify

• Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Cat
  • Creatures
  • Pet

• Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

  

  Edmar Mednis
  • Success
  • Play
  • Results

• There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

  

  Daniel Goldin
  • Alternatives
  • Practicals
  • Transportation

• I'm working with wind, solar, and biofuels companies as well as with organizations like ACORE [American Council On Renewable Energy], Growth Energy, and AREDAY to raise public awareness and seek practical technological solutions to reduce our reliance on fossilized carbon. My book Don't Wait for the Next War will be out in October, where I will offer my prescription for America's growth, responsible development, and security.

  

  Wesley K. Wark
  • Energy
  • Waiting
  • Organization

• I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.

  

  Daniil Kharms
  • Absurd
  • Manifestation
  • Practicals

• With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Age
  • Risk
  • Difficult

• A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Said
  • Newspapers
  • Practicals

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