Top 1200 Practical Skills Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
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.
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
In 'Top Gear,' everything goes wrong because you have Jeremy Clarkson, so any practical activity ends in a pile of bits.
Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.
Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life.
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me.
We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.
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.
Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.
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.
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.
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.
In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.
If you've got good systemising skills you can apply them to systems you aren't familiar with, and look for patterns.
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.
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.
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.
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.
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.
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.
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.
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.
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
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.
Me and fellow scouser Toni Duggan are a double act. We are always pre-planning some sort of practical joke.
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.
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?
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
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.
We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.
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.'
I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.
We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills.
I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.
Let each citizen contribute their natural talents or acquired skills to the greater benefit of all in the community.
Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.
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.
If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
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.
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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.
You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your money “blueprint” isn't set for success, you're financially doomed.
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.
Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.
Whenever I have to work on my skills or add to my craft, I do theatre. It's one place where I can learn a lot as an actor.
I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me
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 an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
At one point, I quit acting for a little bit to study psycholinguistics - somewhat a more practical career. It just didn't feel right.
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
