93 Quotes About Practical
- Author Paul Valéry
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Science is a collection of successful recipes.
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- Author Manuel de Landa
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But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.
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- Author David Schoenbrun
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In human relationships, those who do not love are rarely loved: those who will not be friends end up by having none. [p. 15 apud Thinking Strategically; on the "Intransigence strategy"]
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- Author M.F. Moonzajer
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The only problem with my dreams is the practical side, otherwise it is perfect.
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- Author Geoffrey Wood
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Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.
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- Author Reetwika Banerjee
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Better to be Mr. Late than a Late Mr.
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- Author Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
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The problem is the interdependence of decisions: the jointly preferred outcome arises when each chooses its individually worse strategy. p. 13 [on the prisioner's dilemma and the need to think "jointly" and sum forces]
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- Author Pushpa Rana
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You may be theoretically rich but practically poor.
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- Author Michael Primi
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My motto is: if its cold outside wear whatever you need to keep warm
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