#practical

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #doing #doubt #hand #hesitation

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#liberal #merely #mind #nourishes #practical

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#anything #because #find #funny #happy

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country. ↗

— Rick Snyder

#country #detroit #matter #practical #sports

If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#classes #clear #course #doing #going

I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid! ↗

— R. L. Stine

#books #comic #comic books #every #get

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#kind #most #politics #practical

I think most people played both variants and regular games. It was a period when variants were very popular and there were a lot more variants being played at that time. Every week practically, it seemed someone would publish a new variant in a zine. ↗

— Fred Davis

#both #every #games #i #i think

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#did #in other words #iq #other #practical

The only problem with my dreams is the practical side, otherwise it is perfect. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#practical #dreams