#practicality

If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#history #practicality #tudors #men

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#limitations #practicality #reading #work #intelligence

In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#art

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do. ↗

— David Byrne

#could #i #i can #imagining #practicality

Carnal love: a practical man’s love. A love you can see, touch, and taste if you’re kinky. If you can’t hear it, you’re probably better suited to its more abstract form. ↗

— Bauvard

#love #practicality #sensuality #funny

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#form #more #often #practicality #than

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#gambler #gambling #i #just #market

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical. ↗

— Samael Aun Weor

#science

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#practicality #proverbs #wise

The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast. ↗

— Roger Eschbacher

#practicality-for-intellectuals #swords #writing #humor