Marketa Irglova

As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Having no expectations but being open to everything is what makes wonderful things happen. If I don't worry, there's no obstruction and life flows easily. It sounds impractical, but 'Expect nothing; be open to everything' is really all it is.

Czechoslovakian Musician

Suresh Gopi

After all, what is cinema? It is an interaction, a discussion that throws up questions and provides some solutions. The solutions might look simple, impractical or too fictionalised. But one must realise that viewers empathise with certain characters because they strike a chord with the viewers' needs and frame of mind.

Indian Actor

Rob Brydon

When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

Welsh Actor

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

American Leader

Eugene Parker

One simply runs out of energy as you get old. One doesn't take on new tasks of exploration because it takes an extended period of intense thinking and working on it, and that becomes impractical.

American Scientist

Franklin D. Roosevelt

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

American President

Robert J. Sawyer

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

Canadian Writer

John Rampton

Wealthy individuals are known for spending their money wisely. This means living below their means by skipping the McMansion and impractical luxury vehicles.

American Businessman

Shigeru Miyamoto

Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal.

Japanese Designer

Jacques Barzun

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

American Educator

Consider if 'impractical' fits the context of everyday life effectiveness.

Real-World Use

Use 'impractical' when something is likely to fail due to its nature.

Potential Failure

'Impractical' often implies complexity but focuses on poor fit for purpose.

Not Just Complex

Use 'impractical' to express doubts about the convenience of use.

Practicality Concerns

Choose 'impractical' when common sense suggests an option won't work well.

Common Sense

Reflect on how suitable an item is for a specific purpose before using 'impractical.'

Suitability

 where they did mastery-based learning and saw great results, but they said it wouldn't scale because it was logistically difficult. The teacher had to give different worksheets to every student, give on-demand assessments. But now today, it's no longer impractical. We have the tools to do it. Students see an explanation at their own time and pace?

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 because he had that motivation, and whoever was in front of him, he wanted to help. But, of course, that is impractical. He should have founded the ASPCA in the town and gotten some scientific help for dogs and maggots. And I'm sure he did that later. But that just indicates the state of mind, you know.

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 and the rate of the flow of people per minute. So we started to look for technologies that would help us get these three things. Can we distribute radio-frequency tokens to identify people? We figured out that it would be too expensive and impractical to distribute 30 million tags.

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 that support lighter upper levels. But this solution doesn’t quite translate to a city skyline– a pyramid that tall would be roughly one-and-a-half miles wide, tough to squeeze into a city center. Fortunately, strong materials like concrete can avoid this impractical shape.

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 correct recipients they shaved their head again to reveal the message and in peacetime and wore it has always been important to people to be able to communicate freely the Internet has made us more connected to each other than ever before so it's rather impractical

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 So, although that would be really, really awesome, again, that's extremely, extremely impractical. Now again, we kind of caved in, and we did the very practical approach, which was a bit less awesome. We said, well instead of releasing the full text,

 a certain coordinate point they inserted this language that said the border was to run vents north to the glaciers it was a vague phrase especially for something as sensitive as a national boundary line but at the time it was impractical to be

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 first lady of the u.s lady bird johnson made an early picture phone call to dr elizabeth wood of bell labs may i congratulate you and all who have helped make this great scientific stride possible the system was impractical for home use

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 make the food equivalent of a typical nut like an acorn any rodent wanting to store the tiny seeds produced by plants like these faces a transport problem it would be hopelessly impractical to carry

Impractical

Not likely to work or be successful in real situations.

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Not suitable to be put to practical use; not sensible in practice.

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