Realistic Quotes

• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Graduation, Uplifting

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• I am realistic – I expect miracles.

  Wayne Dyer

  Humorous, Law Of Attraction, Miracle

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• You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

  Teri Garr

  Wisdom, Errors, Goal

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• Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

  Kofi Annan

  Hope, Country, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.

  Bell Hooks

  Real, Believe, Voice

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• In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.

  Betty Edwards

  Children, Giving Up, Passion

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• The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

  Aldous Huxley

  Light, Numbers, People

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

  Sharon Tate

  Ocean, Flower, Bird

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Acceptance

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• If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

  Mary McCarthy

  Decision, Bad Decision, Ifs

  On the Contrary "The American Realist Playwrights" (1961)

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• Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Simple, Keys, Yesterday

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• Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of any conceivable equivocation between the language of "truth" and the language of "creation."

  Paul Valery

  Idols, Essence, Principles

  "Littérature". Book by Paul Valery, 1930.

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• People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Philosophy, Selfish, Struggle

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p. 8), 1949.

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• You shouldn't be pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. They know that if we see an outfit on a mannequin in a shop window we will love it and want to buy it whatever size we are. That's why they have size zero models - they want to sell clothes. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Being size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.

  Rhianna

  Fashion, Zero, Careers

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• Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Uplifting, Mistake, Moving Forward

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• I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather than which way events should go. We have to be realistic.

  Henry Kaufman

  Eye, Views, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.

  Alan Greenspan

  Mean, Cutting, Might

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• Every decision you make is a mistake.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Business, Mistake, Optimistic

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• After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.

  Barack Obama

  America, Vision, Election

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Often we can change things, and a realistic attitude - including envisioning worse case scenarios - actually helps to accomplish that change. But if you truly cannot do anything about something, then why on earth would you want to make things even worse for you by falling into despair? It seems like adding a self-inflicting injury to the already existing one.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Attitude, Fall, Despair

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You've got to be realistic.

  Patrick Rafter

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• The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Meaningful, Father, Eye

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• It is important for you to have a goal. You simply can't get there if you don't know where you are going. Begin to build in your mind a dream. The write it down and make your goal realistic. Aim high enough that you will have to stretch your ability and your potential to reach it.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Dream, Writing, Goal

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• I'm not able to completely escape naturalism. It's very difficult to escape from naturalism without being too dry. That's what I try to do in my cinema - escape naturalism and do films that are, at the same time, realistic but have a lot of fantasy. It's very difficult in cinema to get away from what life is about, from real life. The way the actors work has to be realistic - you can't do Baroque acting - so it's very complicated. And, we're human beings, so we're not perfect. I'm trying to do something different.

  Philippe Garrel

  Real, Perfect, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

  Jonah Hill

  Real, Drama, People

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