Top 41 A Practical Person Quotes
#1. I'm rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don't get sleepless or suffer from the jitters.
Anna Maxwell Martin
#2. Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.
Hugh Hefner
#3. The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.
James Mercer
#4. I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.
Iris Apfel
#5. You don't have to accept every advice. You must carefully think about it in your quiet moment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#6. My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
Ursula Burns
#7. In the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ... it is never too late to find out how to do it.
Ruth Reichl
#8. I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?
Courteney Cox
#9. As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
Leigh Steinberg
#11. I couldn't help it: Brendan was abs-olutely pec-tacular, horrible puns intended and very accurate.
Cara Lynn Shultz
#12. Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn't speak up, say I love you, or say I'm sorry.
Taylor Swift
#13. If you realize that the other person is a human being too, and you have exactly the same kind of spiritual path, and then the two can become good practitioners. This appears to be practical for both.
Nhat Hanh
#14. The average human being is a perverse creature; and when he isn't that, he is a practical joker. The result to the other person concerned is about the same: that is, he is made to suffer.
Mark Twain
#15. Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.
Maria Montessori
#16. The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
James Martineau
#17. Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.
Erika Slezak
#18. How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.
Susanna Kearsley
#19. You are the posterity of your family. You are either continuing the progression or regression of your ancestors.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#20. Every dance you make belongs to you. It is part of your collection. When you think of it like that, you'll want to make your next routine the best you've ever made!
Torron-Lee Dewar
#21. I have found much in people to love but nothing to envy.
Marty Rubin
#22. As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.
Norman Lock
#23. You may say you won't interfere with another person's soul, but you do - merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#24. Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.
Lee Roberson
#25. No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.
Jeffrey Tucker
#26. Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
Larry David
#27. If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball
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#28. But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.
Stefan Zweig
#29. She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#30. The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved into one's own hierarchy of values, then acting accordingly.
Ayn Rand
#32. Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
Samuel Alexander
#33. Obama is a human wrecking ball single-handedly destroying our economy and bankrupting the nation.
David Limbaugh
#34. When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
Annie Leibovitz
#35. Mom is a planner, an organizer. She's very strong and practical. She's the person that'll tell me if I ever start to change my personality. The balance of the two of them created my personality.
Taylor Swift
#36. You have no assurance that they are doing wrong at all, for the motives of man's actions are not always what they seem. There is generally much to learn before any judgement can be pronounced with certainty on another's doings.
Marcus Aurelius
#37. It is God who creates effects and preserves all things through God's almighty power.
Martin Luther
#38. Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick ... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.
Neil Kinnock
#39. The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.
Hakeem Olajuwon
#40. I am not a sentimental or superstitious person, so I don't have any pre-performance rituals. I am a very practical woman. After a performance I am always hopeful that I will lure someone home for a ritual of a more personal nature.
Vaginal Davis
#41. When you strip the bark off of Donald Trump, I think he's a very practical person. I think he's a very smart person. He's got an analytical mind. I think he's tapped into something. His son said he's the "blue collar billionaire."
Anthony Scaramucci
