Practical Quotes - page 9

I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling. (Kevin P. Ryan)
In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west. View quote
Kit Williams
Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. View quote
Krista Allen
It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes. View quote
Leo Kottke
I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare. View quote
Lesley Nicol
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so. View quote
Louise Brown
A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both. View quote
Lemn Sissay
I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about. View quote
Margaret Spellings
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world. View quote
Maurice Saatchi
One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York. (Mike Judge)
Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts. View quote
Phoebe Cates
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. View quote
Robert Jarvik
The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest. View quote
Roberto Unger
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. View quote
Stanford Moore
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker. View quote
Stanley Tucci
Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively. View quote
Samuel Alexander
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice. View quote
Samuel Alexander
Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at. View quote
Thom Filicia
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small. View quote
William Langewiesche
It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings. (Yuri Milner)
I saw that the writers on vegetarianism had examined the question very minutely, attacking it in its religious, scientific, practical and medical aspects. Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over the lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people. In this spirit, the stock market is one of the most attractive things imaginable. Stock-market data is abundant so I can check everything. Financial markets are very influential and I want to be part of this field now that it is maturing. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level. View quote
Winona Ryder