Pragmatic Quotes

• I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Sacrifice
  • Values
  • Pragmatic

• I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Reality
  • Really
  • Pragmatic

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• 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 and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Business
  • Tough
  • Idealist

• For pragmatic reasons, for lessening of violence and for allowing people to live better lives, I think that the march forward for GLBTQ+ rights is a worthwhile one. But for me, hopefully the frontier is alliance-making across all the social issues, whereby people can get over whatever prejudices they're holding in order to keep their eyes on making livable lives for people in all states of vulnerability, no matter what their gender, sexuality, race, class, origin, whatever.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Violence
  • Reasons
  • Lessening

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Liberal
  • Sexual
  • Orientation

• The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

  

  Nelson Rockefeller
  • Moral
  • Helping
  • Judgment

• Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • World
  • Balance
  • Equilibrium

• Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.

  

  William Shockley
  • Individual
  • Intellectual
  • Adaptability

• Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Work
  • Children
  • Relationship

• I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Sometimes
  • Solutions
  • Arguing

• We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Priorities
  • Careful
  • Pragmatic

• I tend to be a pragmatic person. But I think it takes a lot of courage to act on your feelings without obsessing over what other people will think. I wanted to be that person. That’s how I approached this role.

  

  Jung Yong-hwa CNBLUE
  • Person
  • Feelings
  • Pragmatic

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

  

  Michael Graves
  • Architecture
  • Function
  • Equity

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

  

  Kate Morton
  • Person
  • Times
  • Victim

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

  

  David Bezmozgis
  • Experience
  • Emotion
  • Guarded

• I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Emotions
  • Deal
  • Push

• Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don't; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Quality
  • Assets
  • Contrary

• 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 about romance than I used to be.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Work
  • Marriage
  • Romance

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

  

  Carlo Rovelli
  • Productive
  • Pragmatic

• That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

  

  Steven Berkoff
  • British
  • Psyche
  • Pragmatic

• For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths. Anything but frank or pragmatic.

  

  Catherine Brady
  • Desire
  • Body
  • Sexuality

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

  

  Susan Brooks
  • Read
  • Front
  • Pragmatic