Practicals Quotes - Page 32

• 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.

  Ben Schnetzer

  Play, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like we're in a truly revolutionary period, not just in terms of practical activities to overthrow regimes in the Middle East or Occupy but also in terms of radical redefinitions. I feel like workers are a big part of it, but there's so much more going on.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Middle East, Revolutionary, Regimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel. I think one of the most difficult things is every Sunday I am up there ministering, and so you have to have a fresh word, you have to be practical, you need to keep people's attention and so that comes around every seven days.

  Joel Osteen

  Sunday, Thinking, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

  Lord Acton

  Past, Rivers, Gold

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.1, VM eBooks

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• I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Resistance, Recognition, Revolutionary

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

  Hannah Arendt

  Odds, Law, Miracle

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.178, University of Chicago Press

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• Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1748, Princeton University Press

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• I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

  Giorgio Armani

  Death, Real, Artist

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• I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

  Christian Bale

  Mean, Ideas, Numbers

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• Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  L. Frank Baum

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  "Fictional character: The Wizard of Oz". "The Wizard of Oz", www.imdb.com. August 12, 1939.

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• I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

  Erma Bombeck

  Time, Children, Views

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• In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Relationship, Leadership, Attitude

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.770, Open Road Media

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• Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Pet, Individualism

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

  David Cameron

  Character, Independent, Emotional

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• The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spiritual, Parent, Spirituality

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• I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, Suits, Kind

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• The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lame, Study, Results

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.120, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Home, Heart, Thinking

  "Barbara Corcoran: I lived illegally in a rent-controlled studio". Associated Press Interview, www.nydailynews.com. June 28, 2011.

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• Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Mom, Marketing, Building

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Jan 27, 2014

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• When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Class, Technique

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• My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

  Vin Diesel

  Mother, Book, Car

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• My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophical, Ideas, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli, John Alexander Wilson Gunn (1993). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851”, p.103, University of Toronto 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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• The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

  Freeman Dyson

  Jobs, Technology, Effectiveness

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.182, Universities Press

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• I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

  James Dyson

  Math, Technology, Engineering

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