You'll never grab the wonderful with your feet on the ground.
You can't grasp the wonderful and keep your feet on the ground.
(n.) The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
I must assume that knowing is better than not know, venturing better than not venturing; and that magic and illusion, however rich, however alluring, ultimately weaken the human spirit. I take with de...
I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
Live your life as a practical example to others
When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air;...
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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