Practicals Quotes - Page 5

• Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

  Allen Tate

  Men, Way, Poet

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

  Bob Newhart

  Careers, Comedy, Wells

  "Bob Newhart talks about stand-up, sitcoms, and why he stays busy". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. May 16, 2012.

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• There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Writing, Energy, Doe

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when" by Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com.

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• Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.

  Elihu Root

  Art, Exercise, Self

  "Men and Policies: Addresses". Book by Elihu Root, ed. Robert Bacon and James B. Scott, p. 75, "Lincoln as a Leader of Men", 1924.

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• We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Money, Moving

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• To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Education, Couple, Winter

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• The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.

  Robert Burchfield

  Doctors, Adults, Diaries

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• The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Philosophical, Government, People

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• In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.

  John Sayles

  People, Talent, Problem

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• Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Running, Country, Kids

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• Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

  P. T. Barnum

  Government, Important, Interest

  P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

  Eugenie Clark

  Appreciate, Unseen, Use

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• I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own.

  Ally Carter

  Writing, Artist, Oklahoma

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• I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends.

  Eric Dickerson

  Fun, Energy, Different

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• 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.

  Thom Filicia

  Beautiful, Looks, Pieces

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

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• Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

  Frederick Seitz

  Science, Innovation, Curiosity

  Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.39, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have been applied to the practical purposes of life, until the same powerful genius [Davy] which detected the principle, applied it, by a singular felicity of reasoning, to arrest the corrosion of the copper-sheathing of vessels. ... this was regarded as by Laplace as the greatest of Sir Humphry's discoveries.

  Charles Babbage

  Powerful, Science, Discovery

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• ... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.

  Rene Descartes

  Men, Hands, Purpose

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• The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

  Anthony Giddens

  Events, Body, Coping

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.61, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Dutch are a very practical people.

  Famke Janssen

  People, Dutch

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• 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

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social life; the pragmatic study of methodologies to improve our body-mind functioning and thus expand our capacities of self-fashioning; and the practical branch that investigates such pragmatic methods by testing them on our own flesh in concrete experience and practice.

  Richard Shusterman

  Philosophy, Self, Practice

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• And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  War, Philosophy, May

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.209, Aeterna Press

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• My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.

  Diane Keaton

  Mother, Approach

  "Diane Keaton’s Ode To Motherhood" by Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

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