The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. Fernando Pessoa
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man... Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Only yesterday the practical things of today were decried as impractical, and the theories which will be practical tomorrow will always be branded as valueless games by the practical man of today. William Feller
A practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a noble sacrifice of personal inclinations to the welfare of the community. Murray Leinster
Recollection, the art which the practical man is now invited to learn, is in essence no more and no less than the subjection of the attention to the control of the will. Evelyn Underhill
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries. George Bernard Shaw