practical mindset Quotes

School was just kind of something where it was like, 'Um, I guess I should get my bachelor's.' My mind is always geared towards the practical.

The true entreprenuer is a doer,not a dreamer.

For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That’s very important.

My attitude is one movie at a time. I don't want to get ahead of myself.

Patrick sort of had a very pragmatic, practical, Ed-like approach and went down to see.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

I run into grounded people all the time. Given, most of them are behind the camera. But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one.

Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?

I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?

Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.

My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard.” - Al to Rachel

The important thing is, that I guess I don't spend any time thinking about what I am or what we do means. I spend my time doing it.

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

If your route is that you are practically minded, and that is what presses your button, and you do an apprenticeship and you get a job that way, that is fantastic.

I'll let others worry about what is trendy. When I was a player I wasn't a fashion item, I was someone who got the job done. I hope I'm like that as a manager.

I don't do a lot of reflecting. I'm usually about getting on with it.

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

We have to be reasonable people.