Practical Quotes

“Where do you think the money went?” he repeated.
“Guns?” asked Jesper.
“Ships?” queried Inej.
“Bombs?” suggested Wylan.
“Political bribes?” offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. “This is where you tell us how awful we are,” she whispered.
He shrugged. “They all seem like practical choices.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.”
― John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Being the World’s Most Powerful Leader is Easier Than You Think
One of my first executive orders was to impose a moratorium on any new federal government hiring. That got the “Incredible Shrinking Government” meal simmering. Veto stamps branded into any Congressional salary increase proposal added a certain singed aroma.”
― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

“One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.”
― Tiffany Madison

“With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Plot is a by-product of Character.”
― Dan Joseph Decker, ANATOMY OF A SCREENPLAY THIRD EDITION

“Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.”
― Oakley Hall, Warlock

“In meetings philosophy might work,
on the field practicality works.”
― Amit Kalantri

“A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to get to twenty. The beauty of numbers. When it drops to ten again he waits for it to get back to eighteen. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten. Well, it gets back there. But he has wasted a quarter of his life. And all he's got out of his money is a little mathematical excitement.”
― V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

“The symptoms of a writer who hasn’t found their way clear of the needs of Self yet are easy to spot. I should say the symptoms are easy for everyone else to spot, that is, and not so easy for the writer themself to see. You’ll see a writer who does not trust the characters to speak and move on their own, but has to puppeteer them; a writer who does not trust the reader to understand what’s written. One who must insert parentheticals in various forms to explain the work to the reader; flashbacks to explain; big black blocks of text on the page to explain; question-and-answer dialog between characters who aren’t in a courtroom; walk-and-talk characters with their mouths full of dialog of what the story is about; too many stage directions that make the script read like a novel…”
― Dan Joseph Decker, ANATOMY OF A SCREENPLAY THIRD EDITION

“I never let practical considerations clutter my youthful dreams.”
― Roy Chapman Andrews

“When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.
“Nothing about religion is simple.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“No principle ever filled anybody's milk bottle”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.”
― Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War

“You must actively manage your career because otherwise things won’t just happen. Hope is not a strategy.”
― Binod Shankar, Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager

“Racial inequity and injustice, and gender inequity, are systemic problems that impede businesses from achieving their greater potential in the global marketplace; in the meantime, society suffers as well. Readers will learn how companies and their boards, together with nonprofits and governments, can drive prosperity by centering equity and sustainability.”
― Alice Korngold, A Better World, Inc.: Corporate Governance for an Inclusive, Sustainable, and Prosperous Future

“The most abstract truth is the most practical.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

“I believe the technology industry is going in a different direction in which one may think about the Metaverse. Why spend trillions of dollars on big data when big data is becoming more useless? We need dynamic content to create a boom in the tech industry for the next millennium. Why hire someone with a 4 year degree in college for a career in database administration when companies can't afford to pay 100k a year? We can manage that quite fine in Google sheets or excel. The creation of AI would then completely defeat the purpose of data as a service when a program can dynamically build meta searcheable objects in random access memory and store them Inna virtualized file container ;)." - Jonathan Roy Mckinney”
― Jonathan Roy Mckinney

“Practical, concise, and rooted in Scripture. These are the words that come
to my mind as I read Tony’s book, Beyond Sunday Morning. Tony has a
way of packing a punch within these brief chapters while, at the same
time, driving you to truly contemplate the point he is making within each
one. This is a book that will challenge the average congregant within the
church to truly consider the difference Christ is making within their lives
and within the workplace God has them in. Everyone can benefit from
Beyond Sunday Morning.”
― Daniel Garnett: U.S. Army Chaplain

“Work with your emotions.”
― Joe Hart, Take Command

“Build your confidence.”
― Joe Hart, Take Command

“Embrace change.”
― Joe Hart, Take Command

“Reading the romantics suggests just that… a romantic spirit. It’s entirely possible for a person to be both romantic in spirit and practical of mind. To exist, one without the other, leaves for a colorless soul.”
― Christi Caldwell, To Tempt a Scoundrel

“The engineer who created this has grand and lofty ideas— but not much practical sense.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“A moonlit drive into the Mojave Desert sounds romantic. It isn't, not when you have a corpse in your trunk.”
― Liz Tuckwell , Moonsleep and Other Stories

“Adequacy is sufficient: everything else is irrelevant.”
― Adam Osborne