Pragmatic Leadership Quotes

#1. Democrats with a good understanding of the need for strong energy policy in our country, especially in these difficult economic times, recognized the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline.

John Hoeven

#2. The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real

Idries Shah

#3. When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best.

John Ridley

#4. Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

Warren G. Bennis

#5. Instead of looking at leadership as decision making - as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures - a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.

Frank J. Barrett

#6. Remember this: you can have justice, or you can have two dollars. But you can t have both.

Luis Munoz Marin

#7. Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo
from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Alexander Smith

#8. I don't like re-writing very much. The fourth and the fifth draft - that's too much like work. There's not much inspiration about it, and the lawyerly side kicks in - being very careful and somewhat technical.

Scott Turow

#9. We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected to governmental office or taken on a leadership role in their communities. They are now in the position to make a difference.

Paul Stookey

#10. We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact
with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

Leo Buscaglia

#11. Sweet is a grief well ended.

Aeschylus

#12. The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Woody Allen

#13. If I don't really try, I can't really fail, right?

Leisa Rayven

#14. The earth is over a million years old; respect your elders.

Deanna Anderson

#15. I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.

Don King

#16. Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

Richard M. Nixon

#17. Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense

Jeremy Griffith

#18. The more vulgar apologists for U.S. and Israeli crimes solemnly explain that, while Arabs purposely kill civilians, the U.S. and Israel, being democratic societies, do not intend to do so. Their

Noam Chomsky

#19. The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

Arthur Honegger