Practicality Quotes

When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true, but everything else being equal, it’s a lovely thing to have around the house.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires.

Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you. ~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer)

Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.... Comparatively, he is always strong, original, and, above all, practical. Still, his quality is not wisdom, but prudence.

I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."

The case wouldn't be overweight if you didn't have so many shoes. How many do you really need? This pair, for example, I swear you never even wore them.

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

Not the why but the what.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

Always maintain your common sense and artful skills, and funnel it all into plain enough dealings.

Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.