“Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.” ShouldEndsCertainPresidentLevelsEnvironmentPracticalsThe End Of The DayCooperationDiplomacyDecencyDecorumBipartisanship Author:Mark McKinnon
“The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.” ShouldFormSpiritLanguagePracticePressureInternationalPracticalsAnalysisLogicalAdoptionInternational Language Book:Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Essays Source: Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Essays
“It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldHumansHardBlackHuman BeingsAssumingPracticalsHolesApplicationQuestsBlack Hole Author:Yuri Milner
“While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.” KnowsShouldPhilosophyScienceCertainKnowledgeKnowingIgnoranceOughtConceptsAffairPracticalsCertaintyUselessNot KnowingPrecisePrecisionArithmeticSceptic Author:Bertrand Russell
“Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.” KnowsMenShouldFatherEducationStrangeGeniusCircumstancesPaidBillsPreparedPracticalsItems Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.” MenWorldShouldFacesPurposeOrderUniverseBornAnswersAchieveThis WorldEvery ManPracticalsWeekendSchemesPropositionsMetaphysicalMystic Book:Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living
“I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting ... long-term vision. They should be practical.” ThinkingFeelsShouldLongTermForgetVisionCasesHonestlyPracticalsLong Term Author:Dalai Lama
“Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.” MenShouldProblemHandsAbleUnderstandingStruggleInvolvedThousandMembersAverageEightPracticalsFactorsMembershipFraternityAlphas Author:Jewel