Quotes of: Practicality Keyword

He is quiet and small, he is black From his ears to the tip of his tail; He can creep through the tiniest crack He can walk on the narrowest rail. He can pick any card from a pack, He is equally cunning with dice; He is always deceiving you into beli...

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention to something and then remove it, he very often does not do so. In many areas he does not look at something and then detach fr...

Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition

When we talk about the theology of 'God is Dead,' this means that the notion of God must be dead in order for God to reveal himself as a reality. The theologians, if they only use concepts, and not direct experience, are not very helpful. The same go...

True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

You can tend to a garden every day for 20, 30 or 40 years. But if one day you stop giving it loving attention and care it will rapidly deteriorate. Weeds will start to grow, and in a relatively short period of time the garden will become a jungle. On...

The Seven Human Needs: A Practical Guide to Finding Harmony and Balance in Everyday Life

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist principles. When I say religion, I do not mean merely a theology involving belief in a supernatural god or gods; nor do I mean merely a syst...

Julian Huxley

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

A Christmas Carol

For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.

Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

Changes

I would swear that I could practically hear crickets in the ensuing silence, if not for the fact that the stale air probably kills anything that requires oxygen to breathe.

The Conservancy

I think you'll find that I'm qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose. That last part, of course, is essential. --Devyn DuChien

The Caelimane Operation

There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.

Capitola's Peril

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

The Dude and the Zen Master

...the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

In Defense Of Women

We enter a discipline like Zen practice so that we can learn to live in a sane way.

Everyday Zen: Love and Work

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Fear of Flying

The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience.

Foundations of Higher Education Law and Policy

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

Foxglove Summer

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.

The Gunslinger

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.

Beginner's Luke

If you come by my place, you might see a wheelbarrow full of broken bricks. I broke them with my fist. I was practicing for your face.


Brick

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Brave New World