#practical

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#facts #ignoring #politics #practical

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#designate #difficult #form #more #name

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#any #closely #come #described #explicit

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#happen #practically #related #smoking #terrible

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#computer #easy #everyone #general #going

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#also #becomes #lives #longer #mathematics

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#effect #practical #real #real test #soundness

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#beyond #exposure #good #had #hope

The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#analytical #analyze #apply #create #creative

I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#because #grew #house #i #identical