Alber Elbaz

Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.

Israeli Designer

Margaret Hoover

The key to winning millennials is to stick to pragmatic solutions issue by issue. The millennial generation is characterized partly by their desire to see the system work - and they get that this system isn't working. But they also want to be part of the solution.

American Author

Mark Zuckerberg

It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

American Businessman

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

There are libertarians who are survivalists, who live in the middle of nowhere and who are ready for the world to end. And then there are pragmatists, and I would consider myself to be a pretty pragmatic person.

Jane Goldman

If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a screenplay, you have to be quite pragmatic; otherwise, it will run away from you.

English Writer

Amy Adams

I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.

American Actress

Twinkle Khanna

I think you have to be pragmatic to the approach of life and brutally honest with yourself. We all are here to do something, and it is important to understand our potential first.

Indian Businesswoman

Martin Freeman

I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.

English Actor

Michael McElhatton

Roose is a very cold, pragmatic guy, and he's a survivor. He makes choices based on that, and friendship goes out the window.

Irish Actor

Amal Clooney

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

Lebanese Activist

Use 'pragmatic' to describe a person or method that effectively solves problems.

Problem Solving

It implies focusing on the actual results or effects in real-life scenarios.

Real-World Results

'Pragmatic' highlights a logical, sensible decision-making process not clouded by emotions.

Decision Making

Stresses using methods that are straightforward and grounded in reality.

Practical Methods

'Pragmatic' in philosophy means applying theory to practice to test its usefulness.

Theory Application

In philosophy, it's about the emphasis on the usefulness of ideas or theories.

Usefulness Emphasis

 What I started by saying Take sleep seriously. Our attitudes toward sleep are so very different from a pre-industrial age, when we were almost wrapped in a duvet. We used to understand intuitively the importance of sleep. And this isn't some sort of crystal-waving nonsense. This is a pragmatic response to good health.

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 might seem like a significant undertaking -- and believe me, it very much was, in the short term -- it was nonetheless having a positive effect on the way that I approached everything else in my life. Not only did it transform my ability to problem-solve, but I also felt I became more pragmatic,

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 They're incredibly pragmatic, they're hopeful and they're determined. They think they're going to change the world, in fact, I believe they're going to do it. They might be a little bit idealistic sometimes, but in just the last several years, we've seen millennials overtake Generation X

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 but each floor's egg is more rare and valuable than the one below it. While the thief would naturally like to take the priceless egg at the top, she suspects it won't survive a 100-story drop. Being pragmatic, she decides to settle for the most expensive egg she can get.

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 ones who had developed world got a trophy just for showing up what gives me hope is there not like that at all this is the most highly educated highly optimistic pragmatic group of people the world has ever seen but you know what they're not protesting

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 So we have the finger blasters. Other people have dinosaurs, you know. Why do we have them? Well, as I said, we have them because we think maybe playfulness is important. But why is it important? We use it in a pretty pragmatic way, to be honest.

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 Art is the ultimate goal. It saves our souls and makes us live happily. It helps us express ourselves and be happy without the help of alcohol or drugs. So in response to such a pragmatic question, we need to be bold.

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 and so very likely, there aren't as many of these infecting asymptomatics. And that's why you have to be pragmatic. There's a lot we don't know. For example, seasonality may help us in the Northern Hemisphere,

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 Instead of lofty love stories, her characters act naturally, and often awkwardly. They trade pragmatic advice, friendly jokes and not-so-friendly barbs about their arrogant peers.

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 work that we've been doing it doesn't matter where on the scale of pragmatic to idealistic you fall there are reasons to protect bird our future our lives are