Quotes About Pragmatic

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

She defines and eliminates problems. She's practical in an evil way.

I was not raised by big-dreamer parents who pictured their child as a future president. I was raised by pragmatic parents who pictured their child as a future office worker of some sort, making a living of some sort.

I am worried about the Tory party because give or take the odd spasm we have always been seen as pragmatic, sensible, good at our job, sane, reasonable and having the interests of the whole country. Now it is beginning to look like a Brexit sect.

Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.

I am Brexit tooth and claw, but we need to be pragmatic and sensible and leave with a deal.

To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

Wise, if unromantic.

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999).

Closed and gregarious, vindictive and solicitous, Stalin shatters any attempt to contain him within binaries. He was by inclination a despot who, when he wanted to be, was utterly charming. He was an ideologue who was flexibly pragmatic.

Esfuércese por ser pragmático, incluso estoico, mientras evalúa su negocio.

It is based on a pragmatic philosophy of science called functional contextualism

The Enlightenment thus translated the ultimate question 'How can I be saved?' into the pragmatic 'How can I be happy?'—thereby heralding a new praxis of personal and social adjustment.

Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

We live in a pragmatic age and are reluctant to do anything if its practical usefulness cannot be demonstrated.

The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.

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.

I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

If you talk to some of the older players, they definitely say they see beauty in certain games. In my case, there are certain times when I think, 'Wow, that's so amazing, chess is so full of ideas.' But most of the time I tend to be much more pragmatic about it, as opposed to thinking about it as art or something exquisite.

95% of economics is common sense

The best way to promote and protect opportunity is through collaboration, consensus-building, and pragmatic problem-solving. Throughout nearly 30 years in public service, I have approached tough challenges by making room for as many people as possible around the table in search of common ground.