Pragmatic Quotes

“You cannot replace time”

— Sunday Adelaja

Dream in a pragmatic way.

— Aldous Huxley

I am a very pragmatic person.

— Gloria Swanson

I am a direct person.

— Susan Rice

I think I'm pragmatic.

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

I'm too direct.

— Metta World Peace

I just think I'm direct.

— Judy Sheindlin

I'm very pragmatic.

— Andrea Riseborough

“Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Everything looks for you when you become great”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Time wasters are life wasters”

— Sunday Adelaja

“You need focus and concentration to be effective in life”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Your destiny is connected with your calling”

— Sunday Adelaja

I just try to keep it real with myself and everybody else.

— Montel Vontavious Porter

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.

— Shimon Peres

“Your calling is in what you often think about”

— Sunday Adelaja

I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied.

— Susan Brooks

“You have to be skillful in your time management to be effective in life”

— Sunday Adelaja

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

— Carlo Rovelli

I do think that, as an advocate for myself on set, I'm very direct.

— Stephanie Beatriz

“You have to be pragmatic, purposeful and goal-oriented to be fully effective”

— Sunday Adelaja

I feel like I'm a relentless, pragmatic, determined optimist.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Some things in life don't depend on you and you just have to be pragmatic.

— Andre Onana

“Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time”

— Sunday Adelaja

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to…

— Jayson Blair

There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn…

— Michael Pollan

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

— Colin Wilson

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We…

— Bill Moseley

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

— Bill Ayers

I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really…

— Amy Adams

Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but…

— David Means

An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a…

— Kedar Joshi

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal…

— Sophie Kinsella

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule…

— Maurice Strong

The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental,…

— Richard Shusterman

Naturally looking at something will become so important in your aesthetic. For that, you have to be disciplined, too, in the way…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I think it's a good thing that we can have relatively non-partisan political conversations because I don't think that my premier necessarily…

— Naheed Nenshi

Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act…

— Yoko Ono

I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know,…

— Lee Kuan Yew

[Ginsburg's] feminism was very sweeping and very ambitious and very consistent. Justice O'Connor had a more case-by-case, pragmatic approach to her feminism.…

— Linda Hirshman