quotes about Pragmatic

last updated: November 28, 2023

I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.
-- Alber Elbaz

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Dream in a pragmatic way.
-- Aldous Huxley

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Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.
-- Kate Morton

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An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.
-- Kedar Joshi

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I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
-- Linus Torvalds

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However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.
-- Robert Winston

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For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.
-- Shimon Peres

Source : "Talking Prayer With Shimon Peres at the Israeli Presidential Conference" by Eitan Press, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.

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

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“The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.”

Source : "Joshua Jackson Talks about the FRINGE Series Finale, Peter’s Role in the Two-Hour Episode, Comparisons to DAWSON’S CREEK and FRINGE’s Legacy in TV History". Interview, collider.com. January 18, 2013.
“It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses they put themselves in position to make large gains.”

Source : Max Gunther (2010). “The Luck Factor: Why Some People Are Luckier Than Others and How You Can Become One of Them”, p.166, Harriman House Limited
“One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.”
“I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.”
“Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.”
“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.”
“[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.”
“In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.”
“I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.”

Source : James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
“It was literally like the video game!”