Pragmatic Quotes
92 quotes by 90 authors
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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through…
— Amy Adams
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this…
— Madeleine Albright
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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
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I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.
— Roman Abramovich
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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
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The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into…
— John Dewey
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The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable…
— Lincoln Barnett
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For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in…
— Bertram Brockhouse
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The strategic agreement with Rockchip is an example of Intel’s commitment to take pragmatic and different approaches to grow our presence in the global mobile…
— Brian Krzanich
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I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm much more pragmatic…
— Jennifer Garner
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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 force it.
— David Wenham
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Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources. . . . The factions with the…
— James Davison Hunter
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When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you may likely do…
— Laura Schlessinger
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A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives…
— Tucker Viemeister
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I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic…
— Jennifer Garner
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The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends…
— Saul Alinsky
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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
— Michael Graves
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TV is the only medium that I've ever been successful with in delivering really emotional messaging and I think as people are trying to work…
— Jill McDonald
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