Practicals Quotes - Page 23

• I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.

  Shahin Najafi

  Believe, Play, Borders

  "Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.

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• Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day on a tour. I couldn't do it if I thought I was going to do the same songs every day in the same order, like a full-on robot.

  Jamie Lidell

  Song, Play, Order

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Go Green, Live Rich is the ultimate toolkit for greening the planet and our wallets at the same time. No one does a better job than David Bach in showing us the practical strategies for how to enjoy living sustainably.

  Terry Tamminen

  Jobs, Doe, Green

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• If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.

  Robert Sternberg

  Sorry, Book, School

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• My stand is clear; produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others before you think of yourself. Only a selfless society based on sharing can be stable and happy. This is the only practical solution. If you do not want it, then - fight.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Fighting, Thinking, Giving

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• Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish.

  Henry Jenner

  Simple, Purpose, Answers

  Henry Jenner (2012). “A Handbook of the Cornish Language: Chiefly in Its Latest Stages, with Some Account of Its History and Literature”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact with real computing.

  Christopher Strachey

  Real, Views, Long

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• However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  House, May, Infinite

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• The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.

  Melville Fuller

  Two, Views, Law

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• The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.

  Mike Leigh

  Running, Character, Cameras

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Trying, Bliss, Hell

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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• The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hero, Demand, England

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Hands, Majority Rule

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• [My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Men, World

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 9, 1964.

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• The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Men, Data

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• Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Art, War, Men

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• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Angel, Men

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• Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

  George Polya

  Art, Swimming, Practice

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.

  Duffy

  Couple, Space, People

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• Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily constituted one of the chief practical interests of mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Political, Age, Enquiry

  John Stuart Mill (1866). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.1

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• The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols or thought but as images of reality. A system acceptable to the mathematician because of its inner consistency may appear to the practical man to be full of contradictions because of the incomplete manner in which it represents reality.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Reality, Men, Consistency

  Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”

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• The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Statistics, Physics, Infinite

  Tobias Dantzig (2005). “Number: The Language of Science”, Dutton Juvenile

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• True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot. That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that therefore is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known as.

  William James

  Ideas, Differences, Truth Is

  William James (2013). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.

  Richard Lugar

  Opportunity, Needs, Citizens

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• Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural Philosophy which has in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world. The most important object of Civil Engineering is to improve the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal Trade.

  Thomas Tredgold

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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