Pragmatic Quotes - Page 4

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

  Vladimir Putin

  Priorities, Spending, Careful

  Source: thesaker.is

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• If the United Kingdom considers it necessary to start a dialogue on certain issues, we are ready for that, we are not going to pout or sulk. We take quite a pragmatic approach towards cooperation with our partners and we believe that it would be beneficial for both our countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Issues

  Source: thesaker.is

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• In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it allowed for me to get outside of Yale, to get outside of art-speak, and to really think about art as a material practice that has very useful and pragmatic material precedent.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Thinking, Yale

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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

  Sonia Braga

  Thinking, Aquarius, Too Much

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• There is a lot of flesh to be put on the bones - but there is at least an opening for a more pragmatic, less ideological debate about how to build economies that work for people, within the limits of our planet.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  People, Flesh, Limits

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.

  Bill Ayers

  Guy, Lovely, Ambitious

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I think ultimately is, Donald Trump is pragmatic.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Trump

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• [Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

  Bill Ayers

  Campaigns, Compromise, Politician

  Source: thepointmag.com

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

  Chris Isaak

  Angel, Guy, Kind

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• I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens.

  Annalee Newitz

  Humanity, Trying, May

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Kicking It, Balls, Arguing

  "10 ways innovator Arsene Wenger has changed English football forever" by James McNicholas, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2014.

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

  Tamsin Egerton

  Dad, Emotional, Unconventional

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• The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Clever, Miracle, Incentives

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.

  Kedar Joshi

  Love, Blind, Idealistic

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• Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?

  Lawrence Lessig

  Simple, Law, Why Not

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity”, p.306, Penguin

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

  Carlo Rovelli

  Running, Attitude, Long

  Carlo Rovelli (2007). “Quantum Gravity”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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

  Tami Stronach

  Emotional, Ideas, Intellectual

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• Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cutting, Light, Bullshit

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• As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

  Victoria Smurfit

  Play, Joy, Three

  "Victoria Smurfit Talks DRACULA, How She Joined the Series, and Lady Jayne’s Dark Side". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2013.

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• We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.

  Harold Bloom

  Past, Journey, Three

  Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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 because they are obliged to be. They have all the female responsibilities and all the male responsibilities.

  David Bezmozgis

  Responsibility, Thinking, Men

  Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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

  David Bezmozgis

  Emotion, Capacity, Men Women

  Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Philosophy, Italian

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• Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works.

  Yoko Ono

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.yashawallin.com

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• Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in
  principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic
  definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Truth, Science, Unique

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia Smith Churchland, Dagfinn Follesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.21, MIT Press

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