Practical Things Quotes

• To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Time, Stress, Humor

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• Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

  JR

  Art, World, Changing The World

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• Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself-these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Love Is, Thinking

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus.
  You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.

  Will Durant

  Life, Jesus, Attitude

  "Durants on History from the Ages, with Love". Pam Proctor, Parade Magazine, August 6, 1978.

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• Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]

  Irving Stone

  Knowing, Suffering, Complaining

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• What we definitely agree with Walter on is that filmmaking is teamwork. It's one of the only arts that is truly based in the work of a team. Anyway, Werner he told us a lot of practical things. How to hang a hammock. He'd circle a map and give us a notebook with directions to get to certain places that were out of the way. He told us to drink the river water and not use purifications tactics that only "New Age assholes" used. He said that if we saw piranhas, we should jump in and swim with them. We did all of this. We took his word as gospel.

  Sam Pressman

  Notebook, Teamwork, Art

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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

  William Bernbach

  Art, Creativity, Men

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• Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

  William Bernbach

  Creativity, Advertising Business, Businessman

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• If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Essentials, World

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “The menace of Darwinism”

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• I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.

  Galen Beckett

  Strong, Heart, Thinking

  Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.310, Bantam

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• If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.

  Donald Knuth

  Practice, Attention, Spending

  "Theory and Practice". Theoretical Computer Science, 1991.

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• One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Peace, Lying, Opportunity

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

  JR

  Art, Motivation, Inspiration

  "My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

  Campbell Scott

  Spiritual, Trying, Directors

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• I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Beautiful, Believe, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Book, Email, Literature

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• There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

  Saul Bellow

  Lying, Practicals, Inaction

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.

  Langston Hughes

  Song, America, Long

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.133, University of Missouri Press

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• I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.

  Freeman Dyson

  Team, People, Important

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• Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.

  Winona Ryder

  Real, People, Worry

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• You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them.

  Edward de Bono

  Underwear, Conscious, Streets

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• I always say that love is like the meat in a pie,” Freddy put in. “The crust is what people see—the practical things that hold a couple together. But love is the important part—without it you’ve got a meatless pie, and what’s the point of that?” “Why, Freddy,” Minerva said, “that was almost profound.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Couple, Love Is, Pie

  Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “How to Woo a Reluctant Lady”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

  Richelle Mead

  Tired, Practicals, Reasonable

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.240, Penguin

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• If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Memories, People

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Keanu Reeves

  Devil, Want, Exorcist

  "Keanu Reeves trained with an exorcist". www.today.com. February 5, 2005.

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