Pragmatic Quotes · Page 5

I try to keep it authentic and I try to keep it real, that has been my mantra from age 40 onwards.

— Mandira Bedi

People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I'm sorry.

— Pep Guardiola

“Learn to do everything with speed to be efficient and effective”

— Sunday Adelaja

I think the one thing for me that's been working is just authenticity.

— Eric Benet

I try to keep it as honest and real as I can with television crews following me around.

— Carole Radziwill

“Combine your calling with your passion to achieve great results”

— Sunday Adelaja

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

— Michael Graves

“When you are intense, you will do things persistently and with speed”

— Sunday Adelaja

Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about…

— Lawrence Lessig

So as a founder, you have an authenticity and a human factor that is really special and that gives an enormous amount…

— Diane von Furstenberg

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.

— David Bezmozgis

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

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

— Kevin Barry

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

China is ruthlessly pragmatic. It supports North Korea for its own selfish interests. And I believe that China no longer considers us…

— Fareed Zakaria

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 think everybody who really wants to change things has to allow themselves to be angry in a constructive way, and you…

— Christina Ricci

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 like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it…

— Alber Elbaz

“You don’t need any confirmation if you are already in the spirit”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Kathleen Parker

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

“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

“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

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

— Kate Morton

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Ben Barnes

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

— Alex Consani

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Sebastian Horsley

“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

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

— Chris Isaak