Top 80 Pragmatic Quotes

I’m pragmatic.

Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don’t think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I’m going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

France and Germany have to send a strong signal to the Commission that we need to negotiate a pragmatic and sensible outcome that protects jobs on both sides of the Channel because, for every job lost in the U.K., there will be jobs lost in Europe as well if Brexit goes wrong.

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

America needs a bipartisan foreign policy that is predictable, pragmatic, and understandable.

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.

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

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.

I’m generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

The issue of Kashmir is both political and emotional in nature. Any pragmatic and lasting solution needs India and Pakistan sitting together on a table and discussing a solution that addresses the aspirations of Kashmiris and does not compromise the territorial integrity of either India or Pakistan.

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

If you’re writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a screenplay, you have to be quite pragmatic; otherwise, it will run away from you.

Even if you’re an optimist, there’s some part of you that just tries to toughen up and be pragmatic and go, ‘This isn’t gonna happen. This isn’t gonna happen.’ I really felt that way through the process of ‘Korra’ because I knew ‘Avatar,’ and I knew how wonderful it was, and I was so terrified.

I’m interested in light. It’s a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I’m sorry.

Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They’ve gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it… Let’s be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.

President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.

I always thought ‘chick lit’ meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it’s not the ideal term; when I’m asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that’s what I feel they are. But I’m quite pragmatic.

People ask me if I’m liberal or conservative. I say neither – I’m pragmatic.

I’m really pragmatic. That’s my reality.

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

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English – the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

This is the Trump revolution. Pragmatic. Non-ideological. He approaches issues as a businessman. It’s a revolution in ideas and it goes way beyond foreign policy.

The key to winning millennials is to stick to pragmatic solutions issue by issue. The millennial generation is characterized partly by their desire to see the system work – and they get that this system isn’t working. But they also want to be part of the solution.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we’re attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Compared with members of other nations of Western civilization, the ordinary American is a rationalistic being, and there are close relations between his moralism and his rationalism. Even romanticism, transcendentalism, and mysticism tend to be, in the American culture, rational, pragmatic and optimistic.

I never doubted that our parliamentarians would vote to trigger article 50 but I expected a detailed, pragmatic debate around the options of how to execute Brexit and the processes involved.

I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.

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.

I’m very pragmatic.

A presidential candidate’s great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn’t mean they are utterly insincere.

In the India I was growing up in, history wasn’t really a wise career option. People would joke and say, ‘History’s okay, but what’s your actual job?’ I didn’t come from a privileged background and couldn’t afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

The Constitution separated the ideologies and values of the Church from the State, and leaders of the State were thus educated in matters pertaining to the State. These leaders proved themselves time after time with their pragmatic intellectual capacities.

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.

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

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn’t like to have enemies around him.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

I believe President Trump is more reasonable than he is generally perceived. President Trump uses strong rhetoric toward North Korea, but during the election campaign, he also said he could talk over a burger with Kim Jong-un. I am for that kind of pragmatic approach to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue.

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

My husband and I had a very pragmatic agreement right from the start: whoever earns more works full time. So we switched the classic roles.

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

There are tradeoffs between independence and co-operation, between regulatory autonomy and market access. This means that compromises are necessary to deliver a pragmatic Brexit that protects jobs and living standards while respecting the referendum result.

Whether you’re saying ‘thank you’ to friends, family members, customers, or a hiring manager who interviewed you for a job, the case in favor of gratitude is both altruistic and pragmatic.

No matter which administration is in power, and no matter which President is delivering the State of the Union, I will continue to pursue smart and pragmatic policies that put the people of Central Virginia first.

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

I’m afraid I don’t have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don’t imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.

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.

My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

I am a passionate, pragmatic, and positive believer in Brexit, and with my three-step plan, we can decisively leave the E.U.

I think you have to be pragmatic to the approach of life and brutally honest with yourself. We all are here to do something, and it is important to understand our potential first.

I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can’t stick to don’t do you any good. Some people say, ‘Just eat half of what’s on your plate,’ but I can’t do that!