Top 100 Practical Quotes
#1. Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice.
Julie Halston
#2. The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln
#3. Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.
Richard Stallman
#4. UX Design is a practical yet very thoughtful discipline, and a UX Designer's single most important skill is the ability to learn and adapt.
Chad Camara
#5. Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
Allen Tate
#6. I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.
Richelle Mead
#7. I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.
Francesco Clemente
#8. I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.
Steven Heighton
#9. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.
Leonora Carrington
#10. For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
Henry David Thoreau
#11. I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square
but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.
Jacob M. Appel
#13. You have not forgotten to remember;
You have remembered to forget.
But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
Idries Shah
#14. There seemed to be too much gathering of data for their own sake without any thought of practical application - an inevitable development in a statistical and evaluation office unless sternly controlled.
Gordon W. Prange
#15. There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage.
William J. Brennan
#16. 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
#17. He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him.
Charles Dickens
#18. I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
Richard Cobden
#20. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.
Joseph Addison
#21. 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
#22. In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.
Vissarion Belinsky
#23. I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
Robert A. Heinlein
#24. One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.
George E.P. Box
#25. Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.
James A. Haught
#26. You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
Haruki Murakami
#27. Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.
Philip K. Dick
#28. Now this faith, the apostle declares, is indispensable in order to please God. No wonder; anything less is to treat God as if He were unreal and unreliable, and is practical atheism. It is to make His Word less sure than a mere material fact of nature
A.B. Simpson
#29. Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
Robert Bolt
#30. I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance - that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#31. Our prayers can and should be focused on the practical, everyday struggles of life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#32. I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.
John Piper
#33. I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.
Anton Chekhov
#34. The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.
Tobias Dantzig
#35. Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States.
Hannah Nordhaus
#36. Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.
Aristotle.
#37. There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?
John Garfield
#38. Dewey believed that education has a practical function and should not be seen as a series of pointless hurdles to jump over before 'real life' begins. Education isn't a preamble to life; it's part of life, and it exists to solve practical human problems and meet human needs.
Gregory Bassham
#39. I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.
David Livermore
#40. Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a few days (sometimes for a few hours only) as though he already possessed it. It is by practical, not theoretical, religion, that men transform their lives.
William Batchelder Greene
#41. On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.
R.A. Salvatore
#42. In a place of extreme violence and devoid of order, the practical subsumes the principle. I drifted down the path of bribery and corruption endemic to the streets of Baghdad
Jason Whiteley
#43. I was lost... lost in a practical world... an ornament with a heart.
Barbara Payton
#44. Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'
Andrew Hudgins
#45. Everywhere I turn I see it - credulity being exploited, and men of practical judgment, watching the game and seeing through it, made hard in their attitude of materialism. How
Upton Sinclair
#46. If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.
Robert Sternberg
#47. Not only has this subject been long associated with the ideas of thinking men over the ages but its practical importance is attested to by the huge resources of men and material thrown into this type of work.
Robert Hofstadter
#48. It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.
Marianne Moore
#49. And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.
Howard Dean
#50. Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.
Ted Malloch
#51. The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has contributed to the world's problems, it must develop specific and practical ways to help solve those problems.
John C. Danforth
#52. My mind, my logical, practical, reasoning mind, is peeing in his mind pants.
Orson Scott Card
#53. In the outer realm, settlers didn't care about supple skin or glossy pink hair. Practical skills were the real beauty in those colonies, and for once, she would be stunning.
Melissa Landers
#54. Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
Mark Twain
#55. The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
Carlos Castaneda
#56. I have a mother,"replied Hamlet gloomily as he bowed politely and kissed my mother's hand."She shares my uncle's bed."
"They should buy another one, in that case," she replied, practical as ever. "They do a very good deal at IKEA, I'm told ...
Jasper Fforde
#57. Lucy had no wish to entertain that gentleman. None at all. It was not that Lucy did not wish to marry Mr. Olson, for she had no doubt that marrying him was the most practical thing to do. Nevertheless, she would very much rather avoid the necessity of making conversation with him.
David Liss
#58. Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#59. The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.
John Stott
#60. Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.
David Simon
#61. The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.
Edmund Burke
#62. Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#63. In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.'
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
#64. Liberal learning is that which underlies, that which gives purpose and direction to practical skills. It tries to distinguish between the more and the less important, between the grand and the trivial, and to concern itself rather with the center than with the periphery.
Denham Sutcliffe
#65. Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
Bill Gates
#66. To the English majors. We may not always be practical, but we have infinite potential.
Beth Kendrick
#67. Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.
John D. Arnold
#68. The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.
Thomas Malthus
#69. I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
Kristanna Loken
#70. The Transparency Bill is something we should all support - practical steps in promoting an open and accountable democracy.
Andrew Lansley
#71. our Army, (U. S.), would adopt the systematic methods of any of our large manufacturing concerns, they could either cut off half the amount of money they are now expending or use that much additional for practical training
Herbert W. McBride
#72. The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.
Albert Pike
#73. In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts.
James Hansen
#74. When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
Samuel Alexander
#75. If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
Ernst Mach
#76. Love must become a practical activity. It should be the meaning and the purpose of our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#77. Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#78. Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.
Miguel
#79. The villagers had decided that 'practical' meant 'extremely magical and full of interesting objects' and had officially subtitled themselves, Winesap: A Pracktical Towne.
Catherynne M Valente
#80. A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
P.T. Barnum
#82. It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.
John Stewart Bell
#83. Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
Samuel Smiles
#84. For all practical purposes, Feely's enthusiasms stopped where her skin ended.
Alan Bradley
#85. You funny thing! So selfish, so practical. Never mind. I will not ask you to kill me, for you would surely find it an annoying task.
Nisi Shawl
#86. Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily constituted one of the chief practical interests of mankind.
John Stuart Mill
#87. The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
James MacGregor Burns
#88. If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#89. Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ?
Novalis
#90. Many more learned their science in the most practical way: as apprentices to artisans who were more likely to be literate than ever before in history.
William Rosen
#91. Theodora usually found that her good intentions matured too late for practical results.
Edith Wharton
#92. As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them.
Stacy Schiff
#93. Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.
Robert Nozick
#94. Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather than in precept?
Edward Hooker Dewey
#95. Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.
Edward Carpenter
#96. I realized that moderate amounts of stress, when directed or funneled in specific directions, could be both beneficial and practical.
Gudjon Bergmann
#97. We're so useful, we practical people. We hold it altogether. But we're seen as killjoys, somehow. Most unfair.
Joanna Trollope
#98. Money is to Everything as an Aeroplane is to Australia. The aeroplane isn't Australia, but it remains the only practical way we know of reaching it. So perhaps, metonymically, the aeroplane is Australia after all.
Stephen Fry
#99. Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.
James C. Collins
#100. When I was a child, I wanted to be a jockey. I love horses, but it's not practical to have one in London. I also wanted to be an accountant, which isn't glamorous at all, but my dad was one, and I quite liked maths.
Lydia Leonard
