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“I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.”

Needs Long Force Term Realizing Plans Direct Long Term Pragmatic

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

Ideas Reality Form Certain Intellectual Evolve Pragmatic

Author:Billy Corgan

“Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.”

Suffering Animal Principles Position Witness Screws Reducing Pragmatic

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.”

Art Said Spiritual Universe Activity Absolutes Symbols Linked Pragmatic Spiritual Truth

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources. . . . The factions with the best strategies, most efficient organization, and access to resources will plainly have the advantage and very possibly, the ultimate victory.”

Problem Military Victory Resources Advantage Decided Ultimate Organization Strategy Access Campaigns Humanist Efficient Warfare Pragmatic Factions

Book:Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America

Source: Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America

“When you choose wrong because it suits you right now, the message you give others is that when it suits you, you may likely do wrong again. You become a threat and liability to others. That's a pragmatic reason, outside of pride in morality, not to do wrong.”

Giving May Reason Pride Morality Right Now Messages Threat Suits You Choose Pragmatic Liability Suits You

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives worthwhile. My teacher, and one of the founders of the Pratt industrial design program, Rowena Reed Kostellow, said, "Pure, unadulterated beauty should be the goal of civilization." From a pragmatic point of view, for something to be beautiful, it has to work. In order to make this idea clearer I have combined the ideas of beauty and function into one word: Beautility.”

“I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.”

Wells Kind Doe Hard Romance Used Fantasy Hard Work Used To Be Pragmatic

Author:Jennifer Garner

“The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.”

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

Function Architecture Equity Symbolic Pragmatic

Author:Michael Graves

“TV is the only medium that I've ever been successful with in delivering really emotional messaging and I think as people are trying to work their way through what this changing environment is going to mean, playing to the emotional side as well as the pragmatic and the rational side is going to be something that a number of brands will want to fully explore.”

People Thinking Way Want Trying Wells Mean Sides Numbers Emotion Successful Environment Emotional Tvs Rational Mediums Advertising Brands Delivering Pragmatic Changing Environment

Author:Jill McDonald

“Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive.”

Way Materials Ego Concern Absolutes Mental Health Possession Genuine Balanced Obsessive Identification Pragmatic Material Possessions

Author:Fritjof Capra

“My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.”

Mind Father Rights Kings Womens Rights Drs Pragmatic

Author:Tori Amos

“Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.”

“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.”

War Nations Differences Waste Resources Supreme Resolve Standpoint Pragmatic Waste Of Life

Author:Jacque Fresco

“I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.”

People Left Views Achieve Socialism Vehicle Pragmatic

Author:Ken Livingstone

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

Believe Art I Believe Built Foundation Architecture Pragmatic

Book:The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1983: Presented to Ieoh Ming Pei

Source: The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1983: Presented to Ieoh Ming Pei

“I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.”

Ifs Two Government Fighting Winning Sides Military Fronts Capable Optimistic Islamic Two Sides Pragmatic

Author:Ahmed Ben Bella

“I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We need to make it work. And I believe with pragmatic adjustments, given these favourable conditions, we can have more open debate.”

Thinking Knows Men Needs Believe Done Given I Believe Chance Conditions Vote Debate One Man Amendments Adjustment Singapore Pragmatic

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident.”

Earth Universe Space Saws Planets Moon Tests Accidents Divinity Pilots Floating Planet Earth Pragmatic Vastness Vastness Of Space

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?”

Men Want Humans Made Ends Mother Asks Left Sound Church Too Much Sacrifice Holy Healthy Instinct Good Man Unhealthy Pragmatic Closeness Renunciation

Author:Jennifer Haigh

“I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it doesn’t matter. I think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you can’t eat it, it’s not food, and if you can’t wear it, it’s not fashion, it is something else.'”

Ifs Thinking Important Matter Dream Night Morning Fantasy Fashion Dresses Practicals Clock Pragmatic

Author:Alber Elbaz

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

Kind Guy Angel Pragmatic

Author:Chris Isaak

“James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking. Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell's proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America. On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.”

“As the field of coaching finds its way to becoming a mature discipline, James Flaherty's dedicated field research, study, and sound articulation offers a definitive ground and a sensibility of genuine care. At the core this book offers a way of thinking about human beings that makes action and practice central to learning. This is a no-nonsense, generous, pragmatic book that belongs on the shelf every coach, novice or veteran.”

“If you give up on your principles I don’t think that’s being pragmatic... Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isn’t being practical...if you have the right ideas and are forceful enough...I think you can get the support you need.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Giving Ideas Enough Principles Support Giving Up Practicals Wrong Things Pragmatic Support You Right Ideas

Author:Ron Paul

“Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.”

World Balance Weight Proportion Angle Equilibrium Pragmatic

Author:Tom Stoppard

“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?”

Ifs Sometimes Solutions Balls Accidents Arguing Intriguing Kicking Pragmatic Kicking It

Author:Arsene Wenger

“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.”

Bits Emotional Dad My Dad Mum Businessman Emotional Intelligence Pragmatic Unconventional

Author:Tamsin Egerton

“Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.”

Has Beens Might Nations Deals Consideration Might Have Been Pragmatic Great Nations Small Nations

Author:Mikhail Saakashvili

“[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between false conflicts and the true conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious fundamentalism is a false one, since it is based on the exclusion of the third term which is its truth: the Leftist emancipatory position.”

“It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.”

People Results Judging Judgment Intention Humane Pragmatic

Book:Cancer Ward: A Novel

Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel

“From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.”

Mean Universe Differences Views Habit Point Of View Backgrounds Intimacy Indifferent Pragmatic Benevolent

Author:William James

“The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.”

“All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.”

Should Religion Conservative Orthodox Pragmatic

Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“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.”

Made I Can Done House Deals Emotion Needed Calm Burned Emergencies Pragmatic Remaining Calm

Author:Anne Hathaway

“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.”

Feels Writing Mean Persons Causes Term Novel Issues Comedy Ideals Thirds Contemporary Lit Chicks Pragmatic Third Person

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“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.”

Found Enemy Wise Conservative Silver Pragmatic Demeanor Mediators

Author:Douglas Brinkley

“But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.”

Thinking Children Running Certain Actors Share Elements Approach Denied Running Away Circus Pragmatic

Author:Toby Jones

“The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social life; the pragmatic study of methodologies to improve our body-mind functioning and thus expand our capacities of self-fashioning; and the practical branch that investigates such pragmatic methods by testing them on our own flesh in concrete experience and practice.”

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