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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ~ Alan Perlis
Pragmatists quotes by Alan Perlis
Pragmatists are sometimes more prone to illusion than dreamers; when they fall for something, they fall hard, not knowing how to protect themselves, while we dreamers are more practiced in surviving the disillusionment that follows when we wake up from our dreams. ~ Azar Nafisi
Pragmatists quotes by Azar Nafisi
Optimists envision the best that could happen.
Pessimists envision the worst that could happen.
Pragmatists envision the likely to happen.
The pessimist finds many reasons to quit.
The optimist finds many reasons to keep going. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Pragmatists quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist. ~ Rudy Giuliani
Pragmatists quotes by Rudy Giuliani
A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality. ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
Pragmatists quotes by J. Robert Oppenheimer
Pragmatists are often strangely superstitious. ~ Donna Tartt
Pragmatists quotes by Donna Tartt
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles! ~ Bill Watterson
Pragmatists quotes by Bill Watterson
Visionaries light the way. Pragmatists lead the way. ~ Edward L. Cote
Pragmatists quotes by Edward L. Cote
Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of maritime over territorial power. Pragmatists may deplore this as crude determinism, as another vain attempt to construct a general theory of history. They should reflect on the sort of political philosophy and structures we might now adhere to had the Habsburgs, Bourbons, Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin or his heirs prevailed in the titanic world struggles of the past four centuries. ~ Peter Padfield
Pragmatists quotes by Peter Padfield
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. ~ Christopher Lasch
Pragmatists quotes by Christopher Lasch
Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act. ~ Nitin Nohria
Pragmatists quotes by Nitin Nohria
To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in the course of a literate life. To cynics, Z is just an S with a stick up its butt.
Well, true enough, any word worth repeating is greater than the sum of its parts; and the particular word-part Z can, from a certain perspective, appear anally wired.
On those of us neither prosaic nor jaded, however, those whom the Fates have chosen to monitor such things, Z has had an impact above and beyond its signifying function. A presence in its own right, it's the most distant and elusive of our twenty-six linguistic atoms; a mysterious, dark figure in an otherwise fairly innocuous lineup, and the sleekest little swimmer ever to take laps in a bowl of alphabet soup.
Scarcely a day of my life has gone by when I've not stirred the alphabetical ant nest, yet every time I type or pen the letter Z, I still feel a secret tingle, a tiny thrill…
Z is a whip crack of a letter, a striking viper of a letter, an open jackknife ever ready to cut the cords of convention or peel the peach of lust.
A Z is slick, quick, arcane, eccentric, and always faintly sinister - although its very elegance separates it from the brutish X, that character traditionally associated with all forms of extinction. If X wields a tire iron, Z packs a laser gun. Zap! If X is Mike Hammer, Z is James Bond. If X marks the spot, Z avoids the spot, ~ Tom Robbins
Pragmatists quotes by Tom Robbins
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity. ~ Eugene Jarecki
Pragmatists quotes by Eugene Jarecki
Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life. ~ Garry Kasparov
Pragmatists quotes by Garry Kasparov
I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism. ~ Vernon A. Walters
Pragmatists quotes by Vernon A. Walters
Love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists accept it and use it. ~ Stephen King
Pragmatists quotes by Stephen King
I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists. ~ Brian Ferneyhough
Pragmatists quotes by Brian Ferneyhough
We've had enough of pragmatists and self-seeking risk-takers. We need people of character. ~ N. T. Wright
Pragmatists quotes by N. T. Wright
I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist. ~ Fisher Stevens
Pragmatists quotes by Fisher Stevens
I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist. ~ Will Self
Pragmatists quotes by Will Self
It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow. ~ Mel Smith
Pragmatists quotes by Mel Smith
Somebody who sticks to his guns can be called a stubborn person or a principled person, it depends on whether you like his ideas or not. You can call somebody whose ideas you don't like an ideologist or a person of ideas. You can call somebody whose actions you don't like a pragmatist if you like them, or an opportunist if you don't. ~ Richard Pipes
Pragmatists quotes by Richard Pipes
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty. ~ Charles Sanders Peirce
Pragmatists quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce
There is no plan ... You need to make smart choices, But you can make career decisions for two different types of reasons.
You can do something for instrumental reasons
because you think it's going to lead to something else, regardless of whether you enjoy it or it's worthwhile ... or you can do something for fundamental reasons
because you think it's inherently valuable, regardless of what it may or may not lead to.
The dirty little secret is that insturmental reasons usually don't work. Things are too complicated, too unpredictable. You never know what' going to happen. So you end up stuck. The most successful people
not all of the time, but most of the time
make decisions for fundamental reasons.
They take a job or join a company because it will let them do interesting work in a cool place
even if they don't know exactly where it will lead. They're not fools. They're enlightened pragmatists. ~ Daniel H. Pink
Pragmatists quotes by Daniel H. Pink
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Pragmatists quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it? ~ Abraham Kaplan
Pragmatists quotes by Abraham Kaplan
You read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions. ~ Richard Rorty
Pragmatists quotes by Richard Rorty
- we no longer live in the Age of Reason. We don't have reason we have computation. We don't have a tree of knowledge; we have an information superhighway. We don't have real intelligence; we have artificial intelligence. We no longer pursue truth, we seek data and signals. We no longer have philosophers, we have thinking pragmatists. We no longer have morals, we have lifestyles. We no longer have brains which serve as the seat of our thinking minds; we have neural sites, which remember, store body signals, control genes, generate dreams, anxieties and neuroses, quite independent of whether they think rationally or not. So starting from reason, where did we get? ~ Malcolm Bradbury
Pragmatists quotes by Malcolm Bradbury
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