Quotes About Pragmatism

I've known businesspeople who were not realistic thinkers. Here's the good news: they were very positive and had a high degree of hope for their business. Here's the bad news: hope is not a strategy.

Pragmatism allows a person to take things that others would consider problems or distractions and see them as opportunities.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

Being in love we create love, being in hate we create hate, and, the image of the universe being in ourselves, the love or hate we create acts equally upon us. This is the great pragmatism of Magick.

Ein Verständiger nimmt alles wie es ist, behilft sich damit wie er kann und hält nichts Unvermeidliches für unerträglich.

The point was that you have to look at the world as it is, not as some elegant theory says it ought to be.

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life." - Lena Gray

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

Nicht die Welt aus den Angeln zu heben, sondern am gegebenen Ort das sachlich – im Blick auf die Wirklichkeit – Notwendige zu tun und dieses wirklich zu tun, kann die Aufgabe sein.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Even if this entire book is bullshit, can you think of a more empowering and pragmatic philosophy to embrace?

Giving up is not being coward. You are just realistic with what you can and what you cannot.

First, guilt-tripping doesn't work as a campaigning strategy. If you make people feel bad about what they do, you must give them a realistic and feasible alternative. Second, pragmatism beats purism. Every time.

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.

there's the right kind of unrealistic and the wrong kind of unrealistic.

Where classical and medieval rhetorical pragmatism diverges from modern, I think, is in assigning a crucial role to a notion of common memory, accessed by an individual through education, which acts to "complete" uninformed individual experience.

Love is fun but, it is not going to pay the bills.