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The Bible knows nothing of any contrast between truth and experience, head and heart, theology and practical living.
— Michael S. Horton
I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.
— Alma Guillermoprieto
That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.
— C.S. Lewis
The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler's neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.
— Kelley Armstrong
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.
— Henry Moore
Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?
— T.K. Naliaka
You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.
— Richard Rohr
It's endless, the amount of things that music touches on that can help kids grow that are very, very practical.
— Joshua Bell
As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
— Leigh Steinberg
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
Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.
— Ashley Tisdale
To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
— James MacGregor Burns
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
— Eric Hoffer
Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.
— Jonathan Tropper
I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.
— Brendan Fraser
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
If the Aeneid is language as metaphor, as the sacramental ritualizing of human experience, Cicero's speeches are language as practical tool.
— Thomas Cahill
UX Design is a practical yet very thoughtful discipline, and a UX Designer's single most important skill is the ability to learn and adapt.
— Chad Camara
There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.
— Daniel Goldin
I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.
— Mitt Romney
The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty ... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.
— MaryJanice Davidson
He was not a practical joke nor was he a fool but he was determinedly original and had a vague and modest idea of himself as a legendary figure.
— John Cheever
Today's science is tomorrow's technology.
— Edward Teller
Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.
— John McLaughlin
It is practical, but that doesn't mean it's right.
— Pittacus Lore
Twins are so practical. It's always nice to have a spare.
— Billie Burke
It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.
— Robert Jarvik
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.
— E. M. Forster
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.
— Erin Duffy
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
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
— William S. Burroughs
I'm a mechanical engineer, and I grew up on a farm, so I like practical hardware - somebody's elegant solution that proves itself over the long term.
— Chris Hadfield
It is at the risk of our own soul's welfare that we get caught up in practical busy-work,
— Oswald Chambers
A wasted human being
that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
The big problem, again, wasn't insanity, but that people's brains were much too big and untruthful to be practical.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.
— Steven Pressfield
Basic income is not a utopia, it's a practical business plan for the next step of the human journey.
— Jeremy Rifkin
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
Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.
— Brandon Sanderson
[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
On a practical level I'm a TV producer and storyteller who's gone about as long as you can go without achieving a mass audience.
— David Simon
I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.
— Steve McConnell
It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.
— John Sculley
When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.
— Joan Halifax
Love in NOT blind. It teaches you to be blind and overlook your partner's mistakes and shortcomings.
— Reetwika Banerjee
Love must become a practical activity. It should be the meaning and the purpose of our lives
— Sunday Adelaja
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
At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.
— Ryan Holmes
Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.
— A.J. Darkholme
Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.
— David Simon
I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.
— Colin Mochrie
There is nothing as practical as good theory. - KURT LEWIN
— Katherine S. Van Wormer
It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.
— Andy Summers
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
— Robert Bolt
That's a depressing and practical thought," Sam said. "I'd rather it was something magical.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference.
— Oscar Wilde
I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.
— Mitt Romney
I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.
— Colin Angle
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
— D.T. Suzuki
In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
— George Earle Buckle
The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.
— Helen Keller
Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.
— Stephanie Perkins
Economy is idealism in its most practical form.
— Calvin Coolidge
That was about as effective as blaming it on God, and as practical, too. You couldn't get a lawyer to sue either of them.
— George Alec Effinger
The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be, the pattern-makers of civilisation.
— Napoleon Hill
Apparently loved did weird things to a girl's practical decision-making skills - Matilda
— Devon Monk
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
— Barry Schwartz
Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it's not practical. There are no stereotypes.
— Ted Bundy
Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
— Richard Feynman
I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.
— Pankaj Mishra
It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.
— Chogyam Trungpa
I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.
— William Shatner
Often, this cry for more practical preaching is the call of the old Adam for more self-help.
— Michael S. Horton
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.
— William Bernbach
The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.
— Hakeem Olajuwon
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Understanding is a lot like sex; it's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally.
— Frank Oppenheimer
Children are God's or nature's practical joke on couples - that which is produced by passion then proceeds to nearly kill it.
— Dennis Prager
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
— John Piper