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I was too practical to want to be a painter. — Paul Rand

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

No one can be free unless he is independent. — Maria Montessori

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use. — Jackson Rathbone

In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense. — Theodore Roosevelt

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical. — Joseph Altuzarra

I will have the children read Hamlet as soon as it is practical. There are some useful cautions against eavesdropping to be gleaned from that. — Maryrose Wood

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big — Lisa Genova

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating. — Joseph Campbell

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end ... It can never be a means to anything but more control ... like junk.. — William S. Burroughs

If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible. — Atul Gawande

The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow. — Catherine McAuley

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr

A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend ... — Robert Menzies

included: no religious doctrine or practice can be authentic if it does not lead to practical compassion. — Karen Armstrong

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it. — Carl Von Clausewitz

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

If you're not practical, I've found, it can be difficult to hold on to your ideals, — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly. — Elaine Stritch

I don't mind being lord of all I survey but I don't want to have to work at it. It just wouldn't be practical. — Katherine Dunn

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure. — Millicent Fawcett

Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather than in precept? — Edward Hooker Dewey

When you are Patient you can be Practical and rationale — M.Mnzava

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others. — Martin Fowler

Engineers are sometimes the least practical of men, they may be attracted by difficulties ... — Anonymous

[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them. — Theodore Dalrymple

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
- Wizard — L. Frank Baum

Love in NOT blind. It teaches you to be blind and overlook your partner's mistakes and shortcomings. — Reetwika Banerjee

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically. — Arthur Schnitzler

I realized that moderate amounts of stress, when directed or funneled in specific directions, could be both beneficial and practical. — Gudjon Bergmann

Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer. — Boyd K. Packer

It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical. — Chogyam Trungpa

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference. — Charles Albert Gobat

Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance. — Osamu Dazai

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true. — Bertrand Russell

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

You never know when I'm lying. So it would be more practical to believe what I say
-Pauline in In the Presence of a Clown — Ingmar Bergman

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom ... — Ranu Das

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly. — Alfred Tarski

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable. — Miguel

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful. — George E.P. Box

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs. — Herbert A. Simon

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing. — Daniel Day-Lewis

A practical rule: a man which is wise in one area may be silly in others. — Albert Camus

Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization. — Napoleon Hill

To love as Christ loves is to let our love be a practical and not a sentimental thing. — Charles Villiers Stanford

The bookseller could not imagine what might be more practical than a book, — Nina George

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice. — Sue Townsend

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil. — Paulo Coelho

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined. — Peter Drucker

I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful. — John Piper

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband. — Saul Bellow

Our prayers can and should be focused on the practical, everyday struggles of life. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Be practical,
be skillful,
be teachable,
and you will be successful. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The heart may not always be practical, but it is always right. — Debasish Mridha

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds — Nelson Mandela

I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it. — Sereda Aleta Dailey

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both. — Ruta Sepetys

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers. — Terry Teachout

Be a practical dreamer backed by action. — Bruce Lee

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. — Fernando Pessoa

The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere! — Charles Spurgeon

Magick should be used for spiritual evolution and mystical insight; but I am here to tell you that practical magick does work. — Jason Miller

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief. — Adolf Hitler

Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up? — Kit Williams

Many more learned their science in the most practical way: as apprentices to artisans who were more likely to be literate than ever before in history. — William Rosen

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical. — Conrad Wolfram

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. — William Osler

We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider — Kay Bojesen

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks. — David Livermore

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur. — Hyman Rickover

One should be selfish bt only getting things which he deserves not what he likes or suits him,,, — Kish

She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer. — Aya Ling

The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be, the pattern-makers of civilisation. — Napoleon Hill

Love must become a practical activity. It should be the meaning and the purpose of our lives — Sunday Adelaja

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical. — Stephen Hawking

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. — William Moulton Marston

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics. — Samuel Butler

In all small things be honest and the big ones will take care of themselves. — Rolf Margenau

Our moral decisions about ourselves can be spiritual. Our moral decisions about other people can only be practical. — Andrew Klavan

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. — John Ruskin

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

Smart, bold, and practical. I Will Teach You To Be Rich is packed with tips that actually work. — J.D. Roth

The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them in
practical fashion. — Theodore Roosevelt

Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam. — Mahatma Gandhi

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. — George Leonard

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. — Alfred North Whitehead

Better to be Mr. Late than a Late Mr. — Reetwika Banerjee

Ministry is about joining God where God can be found. — Andrew Root

Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity. — James A. Haught

Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts. — Phoebe Cates

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life — William James

You may be theoretically rich but practically poor. — Pushpa Rana

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress. — George Santayana

Grand gestures may be dramatic, but they're rarely practical. — Steven Harper

For every way someone can be lost, we want to provide a practical way for them to be found in the very place they have ended up. — Miles McPherson