Practicals Quotes - Page 25

• During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

  George W. Norris

  War, Agreement, Civilized Nations

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• Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

  JR

  Art, Motivation, Inspiration

  "My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Emotion, Preservation, Appeals

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.196, Cornell University Press

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• Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

  J. P. McEvoy

  Dream, Humorous, People

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• What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Success, Sports, Hard Work

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• One of my first experiences with the space program was with the memorial that was built for the Challenger. When I was in 7th grade my entire class spent the entire school year preparing to launch a spaceship all together. We all had our different jobs that we had to learn how to do, we learned the math that you needed, we learned the practical skills that you needed, and I thought that was really cool. So I think that if you can take a tragedy and find the gold in it and turn it into something positive, that's great.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Jobs, School, Math

  Source: collider.com

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• Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh, that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah? He is waiting for Elijah to call on Him.

  James Gilmour

  Running, Strong, Eye

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• I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christianity, Negation, Western

  Mahatma Gandhi (1924). “Young India: 1919-1922”

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• All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

  Arthur Bryant

  Race, People, Common Sense

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• An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which is a systematic study of how key representatives of America's rising tide of religion attempted a theoretical understanding of, and practical response to, America's rising tide of commerce.

  Mark Noll

  America, Keys, Understanding

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• A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

  Brit Marling

  Movie, Thinking, Law

  "Brit Marling: The Breakout Indie Star Who’s Taking Us To “Another Earth” And Back Again". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. July 20.

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• In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Divorce, Enthusiasm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.263

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• Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Cutting, Two

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.

  William Faulkner

  Women, Drawing, People

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• At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.

  Gore Vidal

  Hate, Men, Sky

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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• The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Thinking, Desire, Next Steps

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

  David Ayer

  Real, School, Cameras

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.

  Craig Newmark

  Jobs, Mean, Reality

  FaceBook post by Craig Newmark from Nov 28, 2011

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

  Catherine McAuley

  Lessons, Today, Tomorrow

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• The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.

  Alfred Adler

  Names, Common Sense, Psychology

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• Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive, formalised -- and ridiculous. Phrases, words, associations of sentences spin themselves out automatically, but have no effect: they have lost their power, their energy.

  Doris Lessing

  Dialect, Development, Association

  Doris Lessing (1979). “Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5 : Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days”

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• Thus those reformers, who look for a remedy by creating artificial carrying-costs for the money through the device of requiring legal-tender currency to be periodically stamped at a prescribed cost in order to retain its quality as money, or in analogous ways, have been on the right track; and the practical value of their proposals deserves consideration.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Order, Creating, Track

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Book 4, Chapter 17, Section 3, p. 234, February 1936.

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• A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Home, Garden

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• In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Country, Construction, Difficult

  "Chung-shan Ch'üan-shu (Zhongshan Quanshu), vol. II". Book by Sun Yat-sen, 1936.

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• America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.

  Jimmy Carter

  Discovery, America, Long

  Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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