Top 1200 Practical Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.

Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

I'm not very romantic. My idea of romance is more practical - like washing the car.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.

That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.

I am a practical human being. I use everything I know on every job I do.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.

I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

One of the things on a very practical level as an actor or actress is that when you do a play, you do the entire story every time you do it. You have eight shows a week. You have a rehearsal process of four to five to six weeks. And then once you're in performance, everybody else goes away and you're there with your fellow actors and the audience and the material and your life becomes about that. And you go through the story from the beginning to the end every time you do it and depending on how long you do it, that's where the craft comes in.

I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

I'm an American businessman. And I'm a very practical guy. I've supported a lot of different people.

As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration that if you oppose the immigration policy we have now, you're a racist.. There is no way in the world we can forge a sustainable society without stabilizing the population. ... There's no practical way of stabilizing the population of the U.S. without reducing the immigration rate. When do we decide we have to do something, or do we wait until things are as bad here as they are in the countries people want to leave?

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

I think of myself, basically, as a very practical person in black bugle beads.

It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers.

He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.

Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us, as well as our best possible attitude towards it. Therein lies the ordinary function of ready-made concepts, those stations with which we mark out the path of becoming. But to seek to penetrate with them into the inmost nature of things, is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it.

I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters in them. They're not just slasher movies with people going to kill people in people's houses. Although I do like 'The Last House on the Left,' and things like that, I do like these ridiculous monster movies.

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.

I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

I was hitting 40, and I realized I needed to just move on in life and do something practical.

You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.

The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.

I was a practical joker as a teenager and I still am today - you can ask any of my staff.

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies.

Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility