Wendell Phillips Quotes

I think I'm pragmatic.

I'm a pragmatist.

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

I'm pragmatic.

I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.

It is best to live however one can be.

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

I'm very pragmatic.

I learned over time that you do not go for the perfect solution….You do what is doable and then you want to try and do a little bit more.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

We are pragmatists. We don't stick to any ideology. Does it work? Let's try it, and if it does work, fine, let's continue it. If it doesn't work, toss it out, try another one. We are not enamored with any ideology.

You can do anything you want, as long as it works.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

I just try to work with what I'm given and make it the best I can.

The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.