Pragmatic Quotes · Page 6

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

— Ben Barnes

“Every fragment of time that passes daily must be converted for it to be fully effective”

— Sunday Adelaja

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

— Kathleen Parker

“As in real life, complex engineering designs demand a pragmatic approach.”

— Haresh Sippy

“The ability to be intense in whatever you do is a key factor in reclaiming your lost years”

— Sunday Adelaja

Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results.

— Mal Fletcher

Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

— Kate Morton

Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as…

— Ben van Berkel

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator.…

— Douglas Brinkley

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim…

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that…

— Ingrid Newkirk

I just hope the film [Aquarius] doesn't feel overly nostalgic because too much nostalgia for me leads to depression. I think Clara…

— Sonia Braga

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of…

— Kevin Barry

For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a…

— Etgar Keret

As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are…

— Barney Frank

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the…

— Camille Paglia

There's a lot of food restriction in the Bible, but it does say you're allowed to eat crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. I…

— A. J. Jacobs

Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with…

— Henry A. Kissinger

It is a fact that the US defence budget is larger than the defence budgets of all other countries taken together. This…

— Vladimir Putin

The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of…

— Saul Alinsky

We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have…

— Paul Stookey

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system.…

— Giovanni Ribisi

In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it…

— Kehinde Wiley

I do feel like Oklahoma City was incredibly open and honest with me.

— Billy Donovan

“Your calling is concealed in you and has to be discovered by you alone”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Pragmatic Programmers won't sit idly by and watch their projects fall apart through neglect.”

— Andrew Hunt

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

— Sebastian Horsley

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or…

— David Wenham

“Use your resources wisely and spend quality time on developing your resources”

— Sunday Adelaja

“You need to understand the principle of intensity to reclaim time”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Living in active consciousness is being in the “here and now”

— Sunday Adelaja

My strategy is just being authentic, and also just knowing how to walk.

— Alex Consani

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

— Tori Amos

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

— I. M. Pei

I want to support John Boehner in any way that I can, but we need to be pragmatic.

— Lisa Murkowski

Bill Clinton is a classic, old-school Southern pragmatic Democrat.

— Monica Crowley

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

— Chris Isaak

“Your calling should bless and affect the lives of others for good”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Purposefully dedicating time into developing yourself is one of the keys to being effective in life”

— Sunday Adelaja