Practicals Quotes - Page 31

• One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives.

  Caroline Myss

  Heart, Self, Feelings

  Source: www.shareguide.com

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• The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Everyday, Answers

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• Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

  William James

  Lying, Opportunity, Thinking

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• The crazy thing is that practical solutions exist. We don't need to perpetuate these problems. I think our hardest job is to convey a sense of optimism, show how things can get better, and get people to invest in solutions.

  Mark Powell

  Jobs, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.

  Mario Bunge

  Believe, Belief, Should

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

  Ayn Rand

  Business, Men, Views

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1928, Penguin

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• Everything I did was practical. You have to strip things down and get to the practical stuff.

  Gene LeBell

  Down And, Stuff

  Source: writingfighting.wordpress.com

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• There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Majority, Public Opinion, Gaps

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues such as how it feels to navigate your way through its interior.

  Paul Goldberger

  Thinking, Issues, Trying

  "Ask the Author Live: Paul Goldberger on the World Trade Center". The New Yorker interview, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2011.

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• God is great"). Conversations about the practical impossibility of God's existence and the science-based irrationality of an afterlife slid seamlessly into xenophobia over Muslim immigration or the practice of veiling. The New Atheists became the new Islamophobes, their invectives against Muslims resembling the rowdy, uneducated ramblings of backwoods racists rather than appraisals based on intellect, rationality and reason. "Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Xenophobia, Practice

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• If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Effort, Missionary

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• I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups.

  Michael Horton

  Successful, Thinking, Church Today

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.16, Baker Books

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• Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.

  Kathleen Norris

  Motivation, Writing, Discipline

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• A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life; and without an understanding of our own purpose, there can be no true commitment. Whether that commitment is to marriage, family, study, work, God, relationships, or the simple resolutions of our lives, it will be almost impossible to fulfill without a clear and practical understanding of our purpose. Commitment and purpose go hand in hand.

  Matthew Kelly

  Commitment, Simple, Hands

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.27, BookBaby

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• The Drama Years is filled with heart-stirring stories, just-been-there advice from recent teens and practical, actionable tips for parents. It's full of real girls talking about everything from stress and body image to love and materialism. Reading this book, I cringed in recognition of my own drama years, just wishing this book had been around back then and so grateful I'll have it as a guide for my own daughter.

  Melissa Walker

  Girl, Daughter, Real

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• Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Love Is, Soul, Ingredients

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.7, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

  John Piper

  Knowing, Secret, Atheism

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• 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

  Real, Choices, Stories

  Interview with Scott Tobias, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2008.

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• Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

  Patrick Demarchelier

  World, Digital, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Clothes should be practical. I like the concept of easy wear. I think [86-year-old] actress Emmanuelle Riva was extremely chic. She's super stylish. At the Cesars, she was wearing this beautiful red silk dress. I don't know whose it was.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level of activity.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Fashion, Play, People

  Interview with Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you translate a mythical story, or a doctrine out of the church, into practical action, it just remains incomprehensible. Rather like the rules of a board game which seem very sort of dull and complicated and incomprehensible until you pick up the dice and start to play, when everything falls into place.

  Karen Armstrong

  Believe, Fall, Games

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

  William Bernbach

  Creativity, Advertising Business, Businessman

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• The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.

  James Anthony Froude

  Real, Different, Tests

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.14

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• It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

  Steven Weinberg

  Technology, Medicine, Promise

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