quotes about Practicals
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A practical girl never pines; she takes action.
-- Adriana TrigianiSource : Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.130, Simon and Schuster
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Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.
-- Ayn Rand -
Information upon points of practical politics.
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I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.
-- Brendan Fraser -
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Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.
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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 -
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'
-- Chinua AchebeSource : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jul 28, 2012
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I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.
-- Colin Mochrie -
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I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.
-- Danielle Steel -
My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.
-- Diane Keaton -
I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.
-- Elizabeth KostovaSource : Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
-- Eric Temple BellSource : Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”
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Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.
-- George E. P. BoxSource : George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons
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Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
-- Jackson RathboneSource : Interview with Julie Miller, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2008.
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Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting.
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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 -
Faith is a practical attitude of the will.
-- John Macmurray -
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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 DeverauxSource : Jude Deveraux (2004). “Counterfeit Lady”, p.293, Simon and Schuster
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Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics,
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I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women
-- Kathleen Turner -
Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.
-- Kevin Rudd -
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Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?
-- Kit Williams -
I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
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There is nothing so practical as a good theory.
-- Kurt LewinSource : Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper
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I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.
-- Laurie Metcalf -
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There is nothing more practical than a good theory.
-- Leonid Brezhnev -
He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.
-- Les Dawson -
Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big
-- Lisa GenovaSource : Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.322, Simon and Schuster
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Nothing is more practical than a good theory.
-- Ludwig Boltzmann -
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That's a depressing and practical thought," Sam said. "I'd rather it was something magical.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
You decide which ones makes more sense, which is more practical and more logical to accept.
-- Malik Zulu Shabazz -
A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.
-- Martin FowlerSource : Martin Fowler (1997). “Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models”, p.8, Addison-Wesley Professional
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The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.
-- Nanette Lepore -
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Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
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Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.
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The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.
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the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.
-- Peg BrackenSource : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books
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The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion
-- PZ Myers -
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Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.
-- Richard Hofstadter -
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
-- Samuel FlormanSource : Samuel Florman (2013). “The Existential Pleasures of Engineering”, p.5, Souvenir Press
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A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.
-- Samuel Hopkins AdamsSource : Samuel Hopkins Adams (2013). “Wanted: A Husband: (With Original Illustrations)”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
-- Samuel Smiles -
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The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
-- Stanley Tucci -
Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
-- Steve Pavlina -
We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.
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Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.
-- Will Hobbs -
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I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.
-- China Machado -
I am very practical, but at the same time, I am a dreamer and romantic.
-- Regina Taylor -
I tend to be a very logical, practical person.
-- Sharon Cameron -
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To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.
-- Arthur Schnitzler -
I am very down to earth and practical.
-- Ashley OlsenSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.
-- Ben SchnetzerSource : Source: collider.com
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The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.
-- Ron LucianoSource : Ron Luciano, David Fisher (1984). “Strike Two”, G K Hall & Company
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Everything I did was practical. You have to strip things down and get to the practical stuff.
-- Gene LeBellSource : Source: writingfighting.wordpress.com