Pragmatic Quotes · Page 7

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

— Chris Isaak

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Sunday Adelaja

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and…

— Laetitia Casta

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

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

— Sunday Adelaja

“The doctrine of waiting for confirmation is one of the greatest time killers”

— Sunday Adelaja

Between the creative, open and spontaneous approach to life, and the highly disciplined, pragmatic approach, there's a doorway, if you can find…

— Frederick Lenz

I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just…

— Nathan Myhrvold

My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a…

— Tamsin Egerton

Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.

— Steven Fink

I think directing and writing are very different jobs. Obviously, directing is a more social and managerial job. The other thing about…

— Charlie Kaufman

I'm always trying to be real. I'm like, 'You have to know how much work and effort goes into this and when…

— Gabby Windey

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the…

— Toby Jones

Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.

— Tami Stronach

This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue,…

— Vladimir Putin

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays. It's more that…

— Charlie Kaufman

I think Donald Trump is a pragmatic sort of populist and who tell people anything in any moment that he wants them…

— Ben Domenech

This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't like the way most people think. It's imprecise. I find that when parents ask me questions, they ask very imprecise…

— Temple Grandin

“The pragmatic method starts from the postulate that there is no difference of truth that doesn’t make a difference of fact somewhere;…

— William James

That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy…

— Jennifer Haigh

Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with…

— Fritjof Capra

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

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

— Billy Donovan

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

— Kate Morton

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

— Andrew Hunt

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

— 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

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm…

— Jennifer Garner

I think ex-Soviet or Russian-Jewish women are tougher and that comes through. And if they are more pragmatic than the men, it's…

— David Bezmozgis

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps…

— Jamie Foxx

We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first…

— Sergei Ivanov