#practical

Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#concept #each #experiences #focus #idea

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#little #little things #man #practical #really

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#between #brutal #differences #end #governments

Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#am #any #aware #course #deeply

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#fled #form #into #liberal #novels

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome. ↗

— Peter Singer

#asks #casualties #ethical #good #hold

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#experience #far #go #instruction #learned

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. ↗

— William James

#gained #ideas #lives #men #only

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. ↗

— Luciano Berio

#between #consciousness #demands #ears #finger

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#break #deal #down #extremely #historical