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• Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not support them, then so be it. NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be frank, honest, and informative.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Government, Safety, Support

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.253, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Safety, Risk, Hazards

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• We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save.

  Assata Shakur

  Years, Opposites, People

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• People normally view my work as fantasy, which on some level is true, but I do think that my work is more magical realist than fantasy. I believe in the fantasies within each of our realities, i.e., I portray very relatable human issues in a very realistic tone, yet in a magical setting.

  Shahad Ameen

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Shahad Ameen – ‘Eye & Mermaid’". Interview with Kelcie Mattson, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2014.

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• Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.

  Leon Trotsky

  Trying, Doe, Revolutionary

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• The more realistic US policy becomes, the better.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Policy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Thinking, Want, Hong Kong

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn't rule out realistic novels in the future!

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Writing, Magic

  TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.

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• When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."

  Dick Vitale

  Mom, Growing Up, Player

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• I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, People, Trying

  Source: www.indyweek.com

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• I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.

  Crowder

  Sports, Stars, School

  "A conversation with award-winning recording artist David Crowder". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.

  FKA twigs

  Loyalty, Thinking

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Distance, Looks, Want

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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• I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being a racing car driver or anything.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Thinking, Car, Racing

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are disagreeable and to magnify the enduring quality of whatever falls in with immediate desire. It is false that the evils of the situation arise from absence of ideals; they spring from wrong ideals.

  John Dewey

  Spring, Fall, Sacrifice

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Ralph Ross (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920”, p.154, SIU Press

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• Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Goal, Steps

  Georges St-Pierre (2013). “The Way of the Fight”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Success, Sports, Hard Work

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• In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful.

  Josip Novakovich

  Thoughtful, Self, Yugoslavia

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• Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.

  David Gill

  Dream, Long, People

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• People must be aware of their problems in a realistic way. They must be able to analyse their problems and to work out common solutions. In other words a community is easily divided when their perception of the same thing is different

  Steven Biko

  Work Out, People, Community

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• The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

  George Will

  Opportunity, Government, Way

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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• Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

  Paul Samuelson

  Economics, Should

  "Paul Samuelson and the Foundations of Modern Economics". Book by Paul Anthony Samuelson, Karigirappa Puttaswamaiah, p. 10, 2002.

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• With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

  David Brin

  Dark, World, Vivid

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• Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and behave. In other words, if we can learn to think about other people in a more positive and realistic way, it will be far easier to resolve conflicts and develop rewarding personal and professional relationships.

  David D. Burns

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Feeling Good Together: The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work". Book by David D. Burns, 2008.

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