#practicality

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

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... 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

Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#practicality-for-intellectuals #truth-telling #inspirational

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#beat #breaks #consists #head #knowledge

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. ↗

— Criss Jami

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