Quotes about Practical
For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.
— Dinesh D'Souza
There is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires—if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?
— Ayn Rand
The need to shelter her family never lifted its weight from her shoulders, but in practical terms she was useful to no one there but the dog and the baby.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It's not enough to dream. It's not enough to try. It's not enough to set goals or climb ladders. It's not enough to value. The effort has to be based on practical realities that produce the result. Only then can we dream, set goals, and work to achieve them with confidence.
— Stephen Covey
We brainstormed both areas, then concentrated on several very practical, very doable things. A new spirit of excitement, hope, and proactive awareness concluded
— Stephen Covey
By contemporary Christians is fast, reductive, information-gathering and, above all, practical. We read for what we can get out of it, what we can put to use, what we think we can use—and right now.
— Eugene Peterson
We live in a pragmatic age and are reluctant to do anything if its practical usefulness cannot be demonstrated.
— Eugene Peterson
We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.
— Paulo Coelho
Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Since not everyone is looking for something elaborate, I've come up with a range of simple things that everyone can buy and wear.
— Neelam Kothari
The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we'll be better prepared to deal with life's problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don't reflect Christ . . .when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.
— Billy Graham
I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
— Stephen Hawking