Practicals Quotes - Page 33

• In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

  George Eliot

  Literature, Individualism, Spite

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3874, ShandonPress

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• I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.

  Paloma Faith

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

  Ron Fournier

  Vision, Speech, Voters

  "Why Obama's Great Speech Fell Flat" by Ron Fournier, www.theatlantic.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Heart, Spirit, Action

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

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• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Interesting

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

  Garrett Hardin

  Impact, Political, Environmental

  Garrett James Hardin (1982). “Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker”, Course Technology Ptr

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• I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

  Stephen Hawking

  Fusion, Energy, Nuclear

  Q&A, content.time.com. November 15, 2010.

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• The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Literature, Might, Soil

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.1.

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• The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is concerned. Winston Churchill had a good long siesta every day during the second world war and he said it was the thing that enabled him to cope with the pressure.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  War, Long, World

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Coaching, Vision

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Important, Purpose, Ends

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• Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Home, Science, Animal

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.41, VM eBooks

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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Views, Silence

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Failure

  Thomas H. Huxley (1900). “A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations”

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• No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Mother, Method

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ocean, Sea, Purpose

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1917). “Method and Results: Essays”

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• The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mean, Maturity, Ideas

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is non-confrontational. We believe there are many forms of scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness.

  Hugh Jackman

  Philosophy, Believe, School

  "Hugh Jackman to star as the apostle Paul in high-profile Christian film" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2015.

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• In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Tasks, May, Architecture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

  Penn Jillette

  Looks, Way, Computer

  "Sound Bytes; Penn Jillette Finds Magic In His Personal Computer". Interview with Peter H. Lewis, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 1993.

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• Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

  Penn Jillette

  Reason, Jokes, Practical Joke

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• Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

  Herman Kahn

  Important, Wheels, Helping

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.260, Lexington Books

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• All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, Three, May

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.359, Read Books Ltd

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• The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Evil, Principles, Reason

  Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Practical Reason: Theory of Moral Reasoning: From the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Judgment, Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Perpetual Peace & Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.51, e-artnow

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• I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Political, Violence, Moral

  "Is Aung San Suu Kyi rethinking her tactics?" by John Simpson, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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