Quotes of: Practicality Keyword

A major challenge we face today, therefore, is to create a desire in people to learn; and to foster and facilitate this desire throughout their lives.

E Learning: Concepts And Practice

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.

Forty years an advertising agent, 1865-1905

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

A Farewell to Arms

Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor.

Fatherland

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

Faithless: Tales of Transgression

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

The Fruitful Life: The Overflow of God's Love Through You

Whether you practice a traditional religion or a universal version of spirituality, it is necessary to keep an open mind for learning and growing.

God Does Not Play Dice

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

It was so difficult to dress appropriately when the seasons changed – the British weather was the nothing if not erratic. Spring was the worst – freezing in Brighton this morning and then practically tropical in Knightsbridge in the afternoon.

Brighton Belle

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

Between Shades of Gray

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.

Barnaby Rudge

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

I'm not too heavy?" she asked. He had just come off crutches, after all. Sophie, you're practically a midget," he reminded her.

Burning Up

Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the ov...

Sue Wicks

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing i...

Lev Grossman

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure, so I went to medical school.

Tess Gerritsen

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry...

Bob Filner

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or s...

Holbrook Jackson

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

James Altucher

The adoption of gloves for all contests will do more to preserve the practice of boxing than any other conceivable means. It will give pugilism new life, not only as a professional boxer's art, but as a general exercise.

John Boyle O'Reilly

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Tony Kushner