Practicals Quotes - Page 35

• Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

  George Santayana

  Prayer, People, Effort

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.138, 谷月社

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• I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

  Adam Savage

  Children, Church, Generations

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• Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Wisdom, School, Form

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• When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Awards, India

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• Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

  Simon Sinek

  Entrepreneur, Experts, Purpose

  "Two Types of Experts" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.

  Simon Sinek

  Two, Experts, Different

  "Two Types of Experts" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

  Samuel Smiles

  Wisdom, Real, School

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.343

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• I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.

  Matt Smith

  Iphone, Use, Levels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

  Wole Soyinka

  Government, Facts, Form

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from May 14, 2013

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• I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.

  Steven Spielberg

  Loss, Style, Done

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• I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.

  Danielle Steel

  Shoes

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• Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Brother, Crazy, Play

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• There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Way, Linux

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, Thinking, Ubuntu

  "Start With a Flower". Interview with Sharon Salzberg, www.lionsroar.com. June 10, 2017.

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• The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Spiritual, Men, Ethos

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• When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

  Vera Wang

  Dance, Wedding, Artist

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• Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Death, Design Process, Aesthetic Beauty

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• The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sea, Land, Fortune

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.177, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Forever, World, Computer

  "Program Development by Stepwise Refinement". Communications of the ACM, 14 (4), April 1971.

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• The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.

  Frantz Fanon

  Struggle, Class, People

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Passion, One Day, Driven

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.192, Penguin

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• An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, Life Changing, Mean

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Responsibility, Space

  "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space".

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• Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft" notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It's an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.

  Tom Peters

  Rap, Decision, Leader

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• A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

  William Morris

  Character, Self, Expression

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