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• There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

  Ben Okri

  Art, Humanity, Three

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• Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's not a lot of realistic, observant writing about the West right now.

  Walter Kirn

  Writing, Tired, Views

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• When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Echoes, Abstract Painting, Patterns

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• After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

  Robert Bateman

  Artist, Style, Abstract

  "Robert Batemen: On home life, health, helping wildlife and his art muse". Interview with Carol Crenna, carolcrenna.wordpress.com. December 15, 2012.

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• I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing.

  E. J. Hughes

  Art, Important, Different

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• My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

  E. J. Hughes

  Goal, Understanding, Painting

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• The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Humble, Self, Profound

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• To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

  Walter Cronkite

  Yield, People, Democracy

  "Final Words: Cronkite's Vietnam Commentary". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 18, 2009.

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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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• We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth

  Barbara Boxer

  Style, Democracy, United States

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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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• Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.

  Christoph Waltz

  People, Together, Elements

  Source: collider.com

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• Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.

  Scott Adams

  Assumption, Funding, Decrease

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• You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!

  Carlos Santana

  Believe, Miracle, Believe In Miracles

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• I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than so-called realism on film. There are films I love that have kind of a muted or realistic style, but for me on any given day I have more moments during the course of a day that feel like a Fellini movie than I do a Cassavettes movie.

  Rian Johnson

  Style, Kind, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm realistic about it. It's been quite some years since I've worked full-time in that area, so I no longer have any material that bears any relevance to my life or the audience. I'd need to take probably a year off, which I wouldn't be prepared to do, so it's a romantic ideal.

  Eric Bana

  Years, Bears, Needs

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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