Practical Thinking Quotes

Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon.

Ideologically driven thinking gets in the way. The right’s refusal to take climate change seriously has little to do with science; it is part of the culture war it is waging against the left. Conversely, the left’s belief that humanity can declare a “climate emergency” and quickly phase out fossil fuels is a fantasy. Everyone should set ideology aside and start thinking practically.

Finding a solution is the way to go.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Dream big but think small.

Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

I try not to think too far into the future; I'm kind of a day-by-day kind of guy.

People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

I need to make money for my family and my future family. I'm not a YOLO person.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Having my own label, I have to look at things in a realistic, bottom-line manner.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

I don't think or write from big ideals.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.... Comparatively, he is always strong, original, and, above all, practical. Still, his quality is not wisdom, but prudence.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

I'm a realist about how the networks work.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah.

I'm always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving.

I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.