Practical Quotes

• Practical dreamers do not quit.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Quit
  • Practical
  • Dreamers

• In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Follow
  • Compelled

• The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.

  

  Will Chase
  • Happens
  • Musicians
  • Rehearsal

• I think America is a really interesting place. In New Zealand, we don't sue each other really commonly. There's a really specific reason, like someone's arguing over a fence that's been put up that's too high. Sort of practical things. And journalists are rarely sued for things. Whereas in America, you have a culture where that's the first thing you do. There's an ongoing pattern here where if you've got money, you can bully other people into doing what you want them to do. You don't need to be in it to win, you just need to be in it to be a pest.

  

  David Farrier
  • People
  • Money
  • America

• I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.

  

  Genevieve Bell
  • Interesting
  • Moments
  • Splendor

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

  

  Gene LeBell
  • Everything
  • Stuff
  • Practical

• They say rubbers mainly for perverts. Dont know why. Think its very practical, actually. I mean, you spill anything on it and it just comes off. I suppose that could be why the perverts like it

  

  Charlotte Coleman
  • Think
  • Perverts
  • Rubbers

• In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

  

  George Earle Buckle
  • People
  • Avoid
  • Speculation

• The romantic, spendthrift moral act is ultimately the practical one—the practical, expendient, cozy-dog move is the one that comes to grief.

  

  Anton Myrer
  • Moral
  • Grief
  • Act

• The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Responsibility
  • King
  • Impressive

• Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

  

  Richard Smalley
  • Practical
  • Applications
  • Administrators

• I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.

  

  Galen Beckett
  • Thinking
  • Strong
  • Feelings

• To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

  

  Arthur Schnitzler
  • Seriously
  • Practical
  • Tragically

• That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.

  

  David F. Swensen
  • Approach
  • Benefit
  • Traditional

• Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Human Sympathy

• Think about Kennedy. Think about Carter. Think about Clinton. Think about Obama. They've all been in their forties and from outside Washington, or underdogs in one way or another. I just think that Americans are looking everywhere, saying, 'Hey, show me some authenticity. Show me somebody who's practical. Show me people who run things.'

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Americans
  • Authenticity
  • Clinton

• It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

  

  Edward Charles Titchmarsh
  • Irrational
  • Practical

• I'm progressive, and I'm practical.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Progressive
  • Practical

• It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Practical
  • Religious Life

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