Practicality Quotes - Page 2

• I'll play a character who is getting married to a woman to avoid the draft. Ultimately they fall in love with each other, but at first it's only out of practicality.

  Elijah Wood

  Falling In Love, Character, Play

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• Spirituality is connected with practicality.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Spirituality, Connected

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• These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.

  Christian Louboutin

  Feet, Pleasure, Candy

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• Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.

  Herman Melville

  Morning, Night, Purses

  Herman Melville (1988). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.198, Northwestern University Press

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• Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.

  Paul Engle

  Vision, Bills, Paid

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• We are dreamers. We worship love, we hope against hope and toss practicality out the window.

  Pete Wentz

  Life, Dreamer, Toss

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  House, Comfort, Synthesis

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• Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Easter, Investment Success, Chocolate Eggs

  "Moral essays on proverbs". Book by Samuel Palmer, 1710.

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• There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.

  Laurence Olivier

  Heart, Cymbals, Spirit

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• For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Memorable, People

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• At some point, practicality requires that you reach out to people in the business. You have to take care of business if you value your work.

  Sefi Atta

  People, Care, Reach Out

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

  Theodor Adorno

  Purpose, Boring, Form

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• The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Art, Spring, Technology

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• I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not just who - I mean the room with.

  Glenn Beck

  Mean, President, Principles

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.

  Ashanti

  Bird, Nests

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• I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Chance, Architecture

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• I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.

  Francesco Clemente

  Decision, Feelings, Nausea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.

  Mick Farren

  Fear, Real, Names

  Mick Farren (2010). “Darklost”, p.154, Macmillan

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• So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.

  Jim Carrey

  Want, Path, Ridiculous

  Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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• My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!

  Johannes Brahms

  Written

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• I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

  David Byrne

  Trouble, Can Do, I Can

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. October 15, 2008.

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• The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Soul, Hay, Stacking

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.89, Xist Publishing

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• If you're steering a boat down a river, it's not something about which you can know that. You can only know how to do it. It's unfinished, it has no start-stop time, it's fluid. Practicality relies on indeterminate markers. It's just another kind of knowledge that's sexy, in a certain way. It's reactive, and often physical.

  Keller Easterling

  Sexy, Kind, Boat

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

  John Adams

  Children, War, Agriculture

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• Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

  Dawn French

  Zero, Thinking, Want

  "Dawn French on her amazing weight loss: I never disliked my body but I slimmed to be there for my kid" by Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. April 24, 2012.

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