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

- Linus Torvalds

I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Xavier Becerra

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

- Ursula Burns

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.

- Tamsin Egerton

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

- Susan Brooks

For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic.

- Shimon Peres

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

- Robert Winston

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

- Michael Graves

Dream in a pragmatic way.

- Aldous Huxley

Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.

- Ken Livingstone

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

- Joan Halifax

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

- Herb Caen

I am a very pragmatic person.

- Gloria Swanson

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

- Cate Blanchett

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

- Ben Barnes

I'm very pragmatic.

- Andrea Riseborough

An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

- Adam Michnik