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To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
To work problems out for yourself, to find you own way out of ignorance, to know the pleasure of knowing - these things improve the quality of life. Unfashionable, even impractical, but true.
You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.
It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.
If you can't find a good enough reason to do something, then why do it?
Knowledge makes everything simpler.
Real Reason:
There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
...it is easier to make powerful ideas practical than it is to make pedestrian ideas powerful.
In a crisis, the "why" is irrelevant.
Knowledge is great, but what practical use is it if you can't put it into practice?
Necessity is often the spur to genius.
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.
There are reasons for everything we do.
A prudent consideration for Number One.
People want to feel what they do makes a difference.
The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.
For any single thing of importance, there are multiple reasons.
To me, speed is really about convenience.
sake of exactness
We say WHAT we do, we sometimes say HOW we do it, but we rarely say WHY we do WHAT we do.
But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains.
There's more power in the simpler things, I think.
The Purpose gives the array of these actions coherence, not just at any given moment, but over time, and thus helps ensure that the firm does achieve a genuine specialization, a genuine difference from its competitors. In this way it makes superior profits possible. Purpose
The most dangerous question a prospect or customer asks is "Why should I?" And he may ask it more than once ... The product and its communication stream must continue to provide him with both rational and emotional answers.
I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should react." (p.180)
Reason also is choice.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.
to get in on both sides, and there's space for a
Because the reward is worth the risk.
Reason drives your search to make sense of the world by pushing you to ask why things are as they are. For theoretical reason, the outcome of that search becomes science; for practical reason, the outcome is a more just world.
to capture it. Got to
when confined to technical use. In like
Reason is intuition's servant.
Knowing how people will use something is essential.
Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
Impact is more important than method.
The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.
But practicalities have to be tended to, even during emergencies.
Simplicity not simplistic.
To give importance to trifling matters.
Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
Costs rationalize decisions.
When you've got everything you need, why complicate it?
Why do you do what you do? Why do I do what I do? We will probably neither ever know, and so what we do on a daily basis is complete rubbish.
TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom ...
Simplicity is efficient.
There is economy in this. For the attempt to see all things freshly and in detail, rather than as types and generalities, is exhausting, and among busy affairs practically out of the question. In
To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.
Necessity is the motherfucker of invention.
One big reason is better than many little reasons.
Most people desire comfort and pleasure.
Reason is also choice.
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to arouse suspicion over time. So far, surprisingly,
It requires much less effort compared
The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
Knowing the why is vastly more important than knowing the how.
Why is a hard question to answer in any langauage.
People appreciate a good product, a stable system. They want to communicate easily and use a product that just works.
The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.
When you would think,
"what was the use of it,"
you'll remember
something you can't grasp
and you'll wonder
what it was.
If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing
it?
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Sometimes I could not tell you exactly why, especially when it feels pointless and pitiful, like Sisyphus with cash-flow problems. Other
Some things just work. There is elegance in simplicity.
What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?
As Danand Ian over at the Lifestyle Business Podcast say: Rush to failure.
Necessity breeds solution.
It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.
If you would write a book about that and give the answer to that question, that 'why?' - you would have a very great book
The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause.
REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
To clear the path, whether that be the elimination of obstacles, closing the blind spots, or to provide guidance, so that the business as a whole can take a digital leap and unleash its full potential.
Prudent people look as far down the road as possible when making decisions.
To Look Life in the Face ... !!!
There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.
But that which is useful is the better.
To remember that you are needed
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
There are many reasons to be simple. It's simply to learn effectively, to work positively, to communicate actively and to live successfully.
for a purpose without reason
Self-interest and rational calculation can thus look like common sense, but there are other ways of understanding human motivations.
When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.
It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.
To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.
It thrills observers and makes the wearer feel a million dollars.
Because survival is insufficient.
Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.
Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.