Quotes About Pragmatic

In the 70's, there was a profound fear of being gay, to be sure, but with the burgeoning understanding of sexism and misogyny, it became harder to understand why one would want to sleep with the enemy, either. For some, lesbian love was a pragmatic route to fairness. (The sex and foot massages were just a bonus.)

You have to be pragmatic, purposeful and goal-oriented to be fully effective

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.

Realistic dreamer is not an oxymoron.

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

I have learned something about quality research, and also that the emotional prices involved in making "expedient" and "pragmatic" concessions often far exceed the effort needed to stand behind my own convictions.

I can be a bit romantic about history, but I'm also pragmatic about the present. America cannot, of course, have open borders. We need a clear, sustainable immigration policy, one that better manages the flow of people who do not pose a threat and can contribute to our economy and culture. Immigration laws can be sensible without extinguishing the idea that brought so many here and compels so many to stay.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

The yuppie was an adult version of the privileged campus longhair who had outgrown the juvenile provocations and naive politics of his youth and now had a "pragmatic" approach to changing the world. This mostly consisted of buying things that were sensible, bourgeois, and decorous, such as Volvo station wagons and imported Italian olive oil.

El Sufismo es, en funcionamiento, pragmático.

I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.

It has occurred to me," she ventured, "that the family temperament isn't well suited to stewardship." Amusement glinted in his eyes. "Speaking as a man who has the family temperament in full measure, I agree. I wish I could claim to have a mother from steady, pragmatic stock, to balance out the Ravenel wildness. Unfortunately she was worse.

You have to find solutions where you can, not where convenient.

Everything about me is strickly business. Nothing personal just being independent its just how I handle sh...

I've never been a dreamer.

The heart knows no logic beyond need and desire; the head has no senses except the common and the pragmatic. Neither, frankly, is particularly useful in love, anyway.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Don't sell to publishing - that's real hardcore pragmatic advice Do whatever you want Doesn't matter What if you need cash - go rob something

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

I'm very logical.

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.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

We see things as they are, we project out consequences of our actions, very pragmatically. We don't stir in a lot of hope, we don't turn blind eyes.