Practicals Quotes - Page 21

• I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues such as how it feels to navigate your way through its interior.

  Paul Goldberger

  Thinking, Issues, Trying

  "Ask the Author Live: Paul Goldberger on the World Trade Center". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2011.

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• Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Talking, People, Tennis

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• A wonderful world would be a place where we can openly, honestly share things and it's done the same way in return. Do you suppose we're going to get that world anytime soon? I don't expect it. So I am practical. I work to have people close to me whom I can openly and honestly share with. And from that base of safety and trust, I can extend my sharing out into the world.

  John Morton

  People, Safety, Would Be

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• Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

  Les Brown

  Powerful, Sky, Pie

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• God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. The New Atheists became the new Islamophobes, their invectives against Muslims resembling the rowdy, uneducated ramblings of backwoods racists rather than appraisals based on intellect, rationality and reason. "Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Xenophobia, Practice

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• If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Effort, Missionary

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• My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.

  Amelia Earhart

  Ambition, Flying, May

  Amelia Earhart, Jean L. Backus (1982). “Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.

  Michael Horton

  Successful, Thinking, Church Today

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.16, Baker Books

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• Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.

  Kathleen Norris

  Motivation, Writing, Discipline

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• Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

  John McLaughlin

  Musician, Spirituality, Music Is

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• It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Enlightened, Theory

  Felix Adler (1904). “New statement of the aim of the ethical culture societies”

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• A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life; and without an understanding of our own purpose, there can be no true commitment. Whether that commitment is to marriage, family, study, work, God, relationships, or the simple resolutions of our lives, it will be almost impossible to fulfill without a clear and practical understanding of our purpose. Commitment and purpose go hand in hand.

  Matthew Kelly

  Commitment, Simple, Hands

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.27, BookBaby

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• The Drama Years is filled with heart-stirring stories, just-been-there advice from recent teens and practical, actionable tips for parents. It's full of real girls talking about everything from stress and body image to love and materialism. Reading this book, I cringed in recognition of my own drama years, just wishing this book had been around back then and so grateful I'll have it as a guide for my own daughter.

  Melissa Walker

  Girl, Daughter, Real

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• If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Lying, Heart, Hypocrisy

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.29, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Love Is, Soul, Ingredients

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.7, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

  John Piper

  Knowing, Secret, Atheism

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• Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't start with a "Big Bang" at all-it was more of "Phhbwt" sound. You may be wondering about the practical applications of the "Little Phhbwt" theory. Dogbert: I was wondering when you'll go away.

  Scott Adams

  Science, Going Away, Bangs

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• From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your life to this quest - seeing and savoring more and more of the happifying beauty of God.

  John Piper

  Heart, Eye, Giving

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• I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

  John Burns

  Running, Views, Practice

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• I am very down to earth and practical.

  Ashley Olsen

  Earth, Down To Earth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Religion consists much in holy affection; but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises. Friendship between earthly friends consists much in affection; but those strong exercises of affection that actually carry them through fire and water for each other are the highest evidences of true friendship.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Strong, True Friend, Exercise

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - II”, Lulu.com

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• I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.

  John Piper

  Helpful, Aim

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• We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity.

  Felix Adler

  Struggle, School, Diversity

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across.

  Philippe Petit

  Heart, Cities, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

  David Simon

  Real, Choices, Stories

  Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2008.

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