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Practicality
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
Alan Cranston,
American
Politician
#People
#Work
#Vision
#Needs
#Practicality
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
Antonio Gramsci,
Italian
Politician
#Strength
#Knowledge
#Practicality
And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
Hamilton Jordan,
American
Civil Servant
#Winning
#Race
#Talking
#Vote
#Practicality
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
Kenneth L. Pike,
American
Sociologist
#Today
#Theory
#Yesterday
#Practicality
Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences.
Jane Roberts,
American
Author
#Want
#Life
#Idea
#Focus
#Practicality