Top 1200 Practical Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

In order for us to deliver this we have to integrate the big-screen capability, the PC capability, and the Internet experience. This is a combination of hardware and software that delivers a new media experience.

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

Physics is now saying we might be living in one of an infinite number of parallel universes. We can learn practical and creative things to do with the information.

Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world.

We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.

In 'Top Gear,' everything goes wrong because you have Jeremy Clarkson, so any practical activity ends in a pile of bits.

My younger self wouldn't recognise me at all. She would think I was quite serious, organised and practical, but I've had to be to run the foundation.

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.

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

I'd moved to New York to pursue a career in theatre, and it's very practical how you do it - I just went to every open call going.

Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.

An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.

We remove ourselves from the experience itself to a surrogate of the experience, which is whatever measure you take from the brain, be it the electroencephalogram or magnet encephalography or say functional magnetic resonance. So it's pretty tough to make those comparisons.

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.

At one point, I quit acting for a little bit to study psycholinguistics - somewhat a more practical career. It just didn't feel right.

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.

The movies I've made, I'm really proud of them. But the experience I've had is, people say to me, 'Oh my God, I saw your movie on HBO. It was actually funny.' Like, that's always the experience. It's a backhanded compliment.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

Me and fellow scouser Toni Duggan are a double act. We are always pre-planning some sort of practical joke.

Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life.

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.'

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it.

I began to tell people that I wanted to be an entertainer. Between the ages of five and 11 there was an intense amount of practical drama going on.

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.

From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.

There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.

The consumer likes having a brand-new experience and reliving it over and over again. If you create the right type of experience, that also happens in video games.

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.

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.

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

If we could solve the problem of who we are and where we are going, that it would have a huge impact on the culture and waterfall in on some of the more practical and social issues.

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

I have the philosophy that I'm different. I have the body, the well-being and the experience. Now the teacher gets to show the student that he's worthy of the lesson. Let me show him through experience.

Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?

I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.