I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.
If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.
I am a practical human being. I use everything I know on every job I do.
It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.
Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.
Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see.
I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common
Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.
What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
