Pragmatic realism Quotes

“Dream in a pragmatic way.”

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

“Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.”

“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?”

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

“The author's projected intellectual climate nearly 500 years in the future proclaims itself too pragmatic to consider living well as important as material satisfaction. This reminds us, ironically, that choosing NOT to consider life's deeper questions is in itself a choice with profound and lasting consequences.”

“Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?”

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

“How we present ourselves at any given time is dependent on the situation. We constantly balance the tension of high aspirations with the pragmatism of realistic expectations. The key is to represent ourselves in such a way that we can fulfill the expectations we create.”