First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Aristotle
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Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare .
Theodore Roosevelt
We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.
John Ruskin
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Henry Huxley
These are very practical things, very important things.
Richard Butler
She did observe, with some dismay, that far from conquering all, love lazily sidestepped practical problems.
Jean Stafford
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.
James Truslow Adams
Their process is a low-temperature one amenable to large batches of materials with lower melting points. From a practical standpoint, it's a good process.
Jack Mccarthy
Concerning the improvement of the internal market, I think all of us agree. The problem is the practical application is not always easy.
Pedro Solbes
I think you are seeing the benefits of building out beyond the core model as they've gone into more into practical goods, autos being an extreme example of that.
David Ricci
The kind of matters we discussed are not earth-shattering matters in the political sense, but they are extremely important for the people concerned and we tried to approach this really from a practical point.
Albert Rohan
Having it all in one building would be more practical because we don't want to fragment the departments and programming. We should identify one building that could appropriately house all uses.
Robert Cincotta
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
He understands the problems that you have and understands the situation you're in. He knows the practical side because he's been through it.
Ron Mcbride
It's just not practical to think that can happen.
Bryan Gulley
As a practical matter, it has proven difficult to either reform or abolish the CIA, ... The logical alternative may be to simply create an entirely new agency.
Steven Aftergood
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
Robert Bolt
Start with the practical logistics of having a 5-year-old sing this part. Plus, it's one thing to read about a 5-year-old doing these things. It's another to see them. ... I'm a mom. I had to listen to the mom alarm bell going off inside of me.
Linda Woolverton
If any of these be wanting, a Christian is not perfect, so much as in the perfection of parts. He is but half a Christian who is an orthodox believer, if he be not practical also; and he is but half a Christian who is practical, if he be not an orthodox believer. These ends of Scripture do not consist nor stand sure one without another.
George Gillespie
There is nothing so practical as a good theory.
Kurt Lewin
We decided that it made no more sense for him to hang around in Baghdad without being able to accomplish his task, ... a simple, practical decision.
Charles Duelfer
The students had a 'textbook definition' understanding of democracy, but nothing in regards to practical application. I was asking what democracy meant to them.
Scott Erwin
If people with mental illness can't access the services, it doesn't matter how good those services are. It simply means that we're good in theory only and not in a practical, meaningful way.
Dave Almeida
It is not practical to build super-tall office buildings in the post-9/11 world.
Larry Silverstein
The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est- this is the supreme practical maxim, this the turning point of the world's History.
Ludwig Feuerbach
Don makes this fun and easy to read but has great ideas for practical usage.
Delma Smith
It's just pure science, no applied science. There's no practical application. It's just finding out something that wasn't known before.
Anna Hoppe
Not only does the wavier send an additional welcome to people with HIV and their partners, it increases the number of registrants, so there are practical as well as moral benefits.
Kevin Boyer
The legal authority's there if you want to use it, I mean as a practical matter, it would require bonds and financing and it would be beyond the means of Potter County and most counties because it would be so expensive.
David Kemp
We don't feel that's effective, economical or practical.
Mike Rodriguez
The first thing is to not act on fear and the only way to do that is to talk about the issues and analyze what's going on, ... We also need to put a lot of pressure on our government and let them know that we don't believe that people being detained is legal or smart or will have any good, practical outcome.
Jennifer Moore
There does seem to be a statistical advantage, but the practical advantage is still an open question.
Donald Berry
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
Max Planck
It's deregulated pretty well. From a practical standpoint, we didn't have the funds to really do a whole lot on the program anyway.
Maury Roos
That didn't seem to be a practical business decision.
Paul Seibert
David did a huge job managing that cultural change. He's a good-quality, practical, hardworking, people person who related well to people across the board.
David Kirk
Some students are more conventional learners ... [while] some are more practical learners. I'd like to work with faculty and students in order to enhance the teaching and learning experience.
Robert Sternberg
We focus on practical solutions that don't reinvent the wheel.
Victor Kubik
It's a tremendous teaching tool and it's going to give our students hands-on, practical experience.
Dr. Terri Agee
Beyond its practical aspects, gardening - be it of the soil or soul - can lead us on a philosophical and spiritual exploration that is nothing less than a journey into the depths of our own sacredness and the sacredness of all beings.
Christopher Forrest Mcdowell
What are the practical benefits of getting dinged by six different airlines on your computer at the same time?
Bob Harrell
Until there's a practical solution for nuclear waste disposal, we believe the liabilities from nuclear power pose an enormous risk to both the environment and shareholders. Also, nuclear is not cost effective, if you apply the full cost of waste disposal and decommissioning plants, as well as the potential environmental liabilities of accidents.
Carsten Henningsen
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
Luciano Berio
Aikido is more practical in comparison to other Karate classes where you learn to hurt people. We learn to use attacker's own strengths against them.
Patrick Hughes
A site like John Kerry's for instance is very well organized, very straight forward, and that could be paying off for him. It is not as sexy, and it is not talked about as much, but it's awfully practical.
Regina Lewis
There is no better advertisement for our arms and military hardware than a real demonstration of their capabilities in the course of practical exercises.
Sergei Ivanov
A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
Carolus Linnaeus
A cool-headed analysis of the negotiation result, in fact, shows that Japan has gained practical benefits.
Chosun Ilbo
But if you brought the lenses away from the top of the surface, you lost the image. They were not a practical way to find tiny early changes.
Dr. Joel Levine
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
One of the best things to do is to consult the disability community. Have a student with a disability walk the campus with you. There is practical stuff that can be done quickly.
Sarah Hawthorne
The report is very explicit as to what occurred. For all practical purposes, it essentially was a gang rape.
Jim Solomons
Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.
Charles Sanders Peirce
I don't think it's so much a legal issue as a practical issue. In practicality, I don't think it would work.
Jon Preiksat
Bristol International will continue to carry out a strategic review of car parking options, so that a suitable and practical solution can be developed to meet the future needs of passengers parking at the airport.
Alan Davies
We all want to take credit for everything, but the good practical joker understands that his craft depends on autonomy.
Chris Lamb
It has been the experience of other states that eradication has not been effective and is not practical, so Kansas at this point does not have any plans to even attempt eradication. If you see a hive, you can kill a hive, but to think you can exclude a pest like this from this state is impractical.
Tom Sanders
For all practical purposes, the Washington case is going to resolve the matter.
Karl Quackenbush
A chignon is an elegant twist on the ponytail and perfect for formal occasions. But it's also an easy and practical choice that works any time you want to keep hair off your face.
Dante Pronio
It's amazing that it's as active in the blast crisis as it is, ... Essentially for all practical purposes that disease is basically untreatable. It was completely unexpected in my mind. It's possible that, if combined with chemotherapy, we may see even better responses.
Harmon Eyre
MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking.
Ambrose Bierce
Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets, ... No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.
Jennifer Dunn
The way the court resolved this was correct. This decision shows how the law can be practical.
Christopher Wolf
On a one-time basis for these O Street establishments, they should be exempted from all of these restrictions so they can move as a group if they want to some practical place.
Frank Kameny
It's a practical, not statutory, decision. We're not going to spend resources to go after a dollar or two. ... If you send it in, fine. If not, we're probably not going to bother with it.
Mark Muchow
After the scalp transplant in 2003, a face transplant is technically practical.
Hong Zhijian
They saw him as the class clown. He was tall and scrawny and always playing practical jokes on teachers. The girls laughed at him but never fancied him.
Todd Nelson
A rigid formula that does not allow local governments to benefit from the full value of their growth is both a practical and political barrier to continued economic prosperity.
Jerry Deschane
Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.
Nnamdi Azikiwe
You've got five-mile stretches to the freeways in either direction, and the bridge (would rival) the Mackinac (Bridge). C'mon, let's look at what's obviously practical.
James Foster
I'm not saying people should be paranoid and never give their information away. That's just not practical.
Thomas Popek
In all practical purposes there hasn't been an artist that has only broken online, there has always been some sort of other tie-in.
Matt Kleinschmit
It releases fear. It provides practical solutions. It says there is life after death.
Alejandro Garcia
The most practical way to become famous is to survive a major tragedy.
Dirceu Alves Ferreira
From a practical policy perspective, there is no safe obtainable level of ozone. If there is any threshold it is at very low levels, nearing background level.
Michelle Bell
They seem to have an intention and desire to solve the issue but when it comes down to practical steps they're not ready to act.
Viktor Kazantsev
We know that when alcohol is involved with younger people, there is a potential for danger. So it's practical for us to be able to deploy for those situations.
Sgt. Eugene Mejia
Acquiring these shares will advance our plan to acquire the remaining shares of AMP as soon as practical.
Lawrence Bossidy
I think we must do everything in our power to extract practical benefits from that disaster, and extreme tourism in the exclusion zone is one of the measures.
Vladimir Litvin
So far, the response has been very positive. The longer we have this product in its real-world environment, the more practical applications we are beginning to come up with.
Kyle Templine
Analysts ask more penetrating questions. From a practical standpoint, most of the questions of individual investors can be answered on [a company's] web sites.
Louis Thompson
He had ambitions, at one time, to become a sex maniac, but he failed his practical.
Les Dawson
You've got to have the fun for kids. It has to be comfortable, and it has to be practical.
Betsy Thompson
Is that the practical number? Are the numbers exactly right? There's a disparity about that.
Bill Raney
I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.
Kristanna Loken
The idea was to, in a very practical way, give people something to take back. We had people from all over the world.
Christopher Cannon
There was a time when the career center came through for practical nursing with some money.
William Powell
It's always about practical strategies.
John Rockwell
And as a practical matter it's unseemly.
Bonnie Campbell
For all practical purposes, we're an international company now.
Richard Meyer
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.
Simon Newcomb
In reality, dredging would probably be more important than that. That's probably more practical than reconstruction, but that's not a good thing to say.
John Meyer
My overall impression is [the studio members] have done a great job in being practical but aesthetic. This is doable. I could live with this. I love the idea of mixed use – that's who we are.
Sue Phillips
She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.
Holly Tachovsky
This may not be the most beautiful building at Charles de Gaulle. But practical things can have their own beauty as well.
Hubert Fontanel
Our aim is to show that real Jewish princesses are tough, dynamic and practical.
Madeline Black
I know our judges here will be practical and take into account that there's only so much a lawyer can do to make certain his client is being complete and truthful.
Paul Matthews
Guidelines for bone health maintenance have been developed. Practical strategies and algorithms designed to monitor bone health with interventions -- once established and widely implemented -- offer the potential to abrogate this increased fracture risk.
Richard Bell
Honor before profit; where practical.
Gerald Barzan
This is an opportunity to make something extremely practical and logical, which at the same time tries to inspire the imagination in a way that can happen only here, in New York Harbor.
Santiago Calatrava
This event is a practical opportunity for people to take part and take ownership of their local areas.
Andrew Lewis
Finding alternatives if you will is not a practical thing. It can't be done.
David Treitel
It is just a practical answer to keeping things in. They need to keep certain pieces of kit dry and a shed does that job admirably!
Paul Beaver
Partnerships between industry and education are so very important in the lives of our youth. With this program, students will have a wonderful opportunity to gain practical knowledge and experience in careers pertaining to the automotive industry.
Sheryl Garrett
For all practical intents and purposes, everyone is now a filmmaker.
Ira Deutchman
Cell phones enabled people to connect when they were out and about. But those data connections are so unsatisfactory that it wasn't useful in practical terms.
Jeremy James
Dream more than others think practical.
Howard Schultz
There can be no negative effect (or) contamination of the lake. I base this certainty on the laws of physics and practical experience (of the use of similar techniques elsewhere).
Valery Lukin
We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down.
André Glucksmann
It gives students practical skills and the ability to act out what they learn in the classroom. They feel like their education is something they can use.
Mark Stemen
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
Arthur Cohn
The Eaga Partnership has done a very, very good job because it doesn't just raise a very important problem, it actually brings forward practical solutions.
Mark Durkan
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
There would simply be too much information for network operators to store all the data. The government has to be practical.
Jeanette Chan
These projects have demonstrated they are practical and exciting and will add to the proportion of the UK's energy that comes from renewable sources.
Malcolm Wicks
Related government bodies should come up with more practical targets of China's gas power development.
Wang Yonggan
It's a practical, durable, not-flashy product that's about halfway in cost between Formica and granite and about 40% of the weight of granite.
Tom Worthen
The people that were in the building were the principal's relatives and she was playing a practical joke on them. They had come to tour the school and it was a practical joke.
Annette Singletary
It's not practical to have four goaltenders dressed for practice, so we felt it best to have Ryan remain at home and be available.
Don Waddell
The whole place is a practical joke.
Dave Baldwin
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
James Anthony Froude
The president is going to take a look at where we can get the most effective use of the resources. He wants to be practical and effective.
Brian Dolan
I like skirts that are sort of more bits of fabric, you know, just fluttering about. But trousers seem to me to be much more interesting and much more practical.
Richard Nott
It offers a practice which is practical for dramatically improving the educational experience.
Olivia Lindquist
The practical result of the court's decision is that the president and all other government officials will be less likely to receive full and frank advice about their official obligations and duties from government attorneys.
Charles Ruff
If my child is sitting over meal time, it is both polite and practical to feed the sitter, too.
Dd Hellebush
But as a practical matter, retailers are interested in applying the standards nationally.
Charles Margulis
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson
Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all divine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
It's just not practical to do a commercial negotiation in the public arena. We would not be able to engage a partner the quality of Hutchison if it was done in the public arena.
Bob Lineham
[Bellevue] has an excellent reputation. I knew a degree from there would be very practical.
Dan Thompson
It doesn't mean that they can't get the judgment against you, but as a practical matter, the creditor is not going to be able to collect on it.
Garry Moore
(It's) to express thanks and gratitude in a practical way.
Mark Baird
We don't think it's limited as a practical matter. The cell lines currently available are sufficient to progress the science.
David Greenwood
The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?
Billy Connolly
There are still some practical concerns. We don't want to violate federal laws on disclosing employees' medical records but once that practical discussion occurs we can go forward from there.
Bill Fischer
The No. 1 benefit of this is they get a practical use of what they've been doing the last two years. And they get to work together as a team.
Steve Troyer
We wanted [co-teaching] to have a practical effect to counter class size.
Nat Harrington
It's just not practical. Seventy-five per cent of businesses in this country have fewer than five employees.
Catherine Swift
Another way to understand this opposition of principles and practical obstacles is to speak of statistics and dynamics.
John Portman
The idea of the course is to teach students to learn more English so they can assimilate themselves better in the community. Our goal is to help them be able to ask directions if they get lost, go to the library and ask for what they need. It's a very practical use of English.
Thuy Nguyen
Well then there would have to be housing for them to move to and we're looking at all possibilities but we obviously have to have a practical solution as well.
Bill Graham
We are practical people who will endorse people who work for working people - whether they are Republican or Democrat.
Michael Fishman
Co-operation is very important for both practical needs and strategic development. Therefore, the government of HKSAR attaches great importance to co-operation and exchanges with Shenzhen.
Rafael Hui
As a practical matter ... she now knows the charges against her. The important thing is, now she has not been terminated.
Robert Palmer
Maury County has chosen to maintain its unit schools and smaller schools. As a result, it's impossible and not really practical to have the same identical courses at all schools.
Patrick Robinson
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Richard Feynman
For all practical purposes participating in it.
Alan Grayson
This is a terrific opportunity for people in Northam to get some practical help to manage daily living with chronic disease.
Christina Johnson
A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .
Robert G. Menzies
From a practical point of view, you need to be locally present to understand local circumstances, county commissions, city commissions, things like that.
Richard Callahan
From a practical perspective, any telecom manufacturer has to have a big position in China.
Nick Ingelbrecht
Wrestling the World has shown practical love to those who are in need, and we are truly in need.
Vitalice Kahendah
It's doable but is it practical? That's another question, ... The biggest obstacle I see is clearing all the buildings from the infield. When I ran the track (1978-82) there weren't as many structures as there are now. It seems to me that it would be very costly to tear everything down, then build it back just to play one football game.
Gary Baker
Having a couple of inches of a step down is huge for practical reasons. If the deck and the porch are at the same height, water can seep in.
Dave Tibbetts
We're really moving on to the practical questions now to see how we can implement some of these recommendations.
Dave Kingham
I am very down to earth and practical.
Ashley Olsen
We believe this is viable, we believe this is practical and we believe the money will be there.
Marion Blakey
We're not out of it by any means, but we don't have total control now like we would have if we had beaten Mount Vernon. For all practical purposes, if we lose another, it's over. We've got to take care of business and hope the chips fall in our favor now.
Larry Eberst
It's an uninsurable risk. The only people who would buy it are in a flood area, and it would have to carry such a high premium that it would not be practical for anyone to buy it.
Sam Sorich
This is just our way of showing the love of God in a real-life practical way. I call it putting feet on our faith.
Linda Heitman
This is a verdict in favor of no one and it will not have any practical impact on Philip Morris and its employees.
Dan K. Webb
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent
Phil Lewis is the most practical visionary we have. He has the unique ability to step away from the issues and offer an indispensable perspective. Plus, he's just a wonderful person.
Rodney Kreunen
We try to preserve them, but that's not always practical so the trade-off is data recovery.
Marty Mccune
There are Palestinians who see (Sharon) as someone who did a lot of practical harm to the Palestinian cause. And some people who feel he is the only strongman in Israel who would be able to implement any agreement and enforce it on his own people.
Nader Said
When doing this field work, we put in thousands of hours. We needed to boil it down in a practical way, so all the data cannot be included. The point of category B is that we will add the necessary information from our data.
Joseph Bridges
Dialogue and many practical common projects are more important. We came here to build bridges but it must be two-way bridges.
Amr Khaled
We think the jury is out whether there will be any practical impact on video markets and, in any case, we don?t see any major impact anytime soon.
Douglas Shapiro
We think that is a good practical way of raising the quality of education.
David Willetts
The cost of protecting IP rights for UK firms is an issue ? we're looking to find practical ways of reducing it.
Andrew Gowers
With a practical joke, you do one of two things. You convince people that something exists when it doesn't, or you convince people that something doesn't exist when it does.
Chris Lamb
The personal purchase is emotional; the business purchase practical.
Mark Williams
The CITES listing doesn't necessarily equal protection in practical terms.
Craig Hoover
We will face practical problems of how you deal with people that call for the destruction of Israel.
Joseph Bachar
I think what's happening is we are failing to equip children with the skills that they need - the emotional skills as well as the practical skills.
John Rosemond
[Along with a gallery of photos displayed throughout, the book comes with a DVD that has save-for-your-grandchildren moments, like a mini-documentary on Shepard's first flight, as well as some whimsical moments with elaborate practical jokes.] Levity is lubricant of crises, ... gotcha.
Wally Schirra
As a practical matter, it could affect the kinds of assignments a judge gets. It could affect whether or not a judge would be approved by a Bar association or other screening committees for election. And nobody likes or enjoys the public criticism that a censure brings. It is significantly a deterrent and an educational tool for other judges to use as a guide for how to behave.
Robert Tembeckjian
This series takes a laugh-and-learn approach to learning something new about your body, as well as something practical that you never thought you could do.
Karen Thomas
She was the lawyer at the American Bar Association that was keeping the lawyers ethical. What better person do we want? She's got the practical experience.
Ronne Froman
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.
William Moulton Marston
She's the explorer and I'm the navigator. We meet in the middle on strategy and what's practical.
Kathy Sherbrooke
I think she has taken a particularly practical approach to these cases and shown an openness to address these issues on almost a case-by-case basis. After Lane , it is not at all clear how this one will come out. Her mode of decision-making is one that crossed ideological grounds.
Peter Blanck
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