Realistic Quotes - Page 26

• Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

  Leon F. "Lee" Ellis

  Dream, Average, Expectations

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• The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight of the artist, the religious leader, the poet, who explains man to himself. The man of action alone or the man of contemplation alone will not be enough; these two qualities together are required.

  David Lilienthal

  Religious, Artist, Men

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• The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

  George Orwell

  Patriotic, Justice, Democracy

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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• A realistic definition of risk recognizes the potential loss of capital through inflation and taxes, and would include at least the following two factors: The probability that the investment you chose will preserve your capital over the time you intend to invest your funds. The probability the investments you select will outperform alternative investments for this period.

  David Dreman

  Loss, Two, Risk

  David Dreman (1998). “Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.

  Ti West

  Stuff, Mundane, Seeing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• ...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.

  Eugene Richards

  Photography, War, Believe

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• My work is aimed at creating a world in which I wish to live. Consequently, it is about creating ideals with the aid of realistic techniques. My most fundamental motivation is a desire for unity, fusion and sense of community.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Motivation, Creating, Community

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• When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like, It was absolutely horrid. That's what they tell in the music industry.

  Toni Braxton

  Idols, Music Industry, American Idol

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• One of the most revolutionary concepts to grow out of our clinical experience is the growing recognition that innermost core of man's nature - the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his 'animal nature' - is basically socialized, forward-moving, rational and realistic... He is realistically able to control himself, and he is incorrigibly socialized in his desires. There is no beast in man, there is only man in man.

  Carl Rogers

  Moving, Animal, Men

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• So, but I've always been very realistic about what it is when you're in the public eye.

  Goldie Hawn

  Eye, Public Eye

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2006.

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• In Marxism there are some very unhelpful ideas about the need to push for a revolution that will overturn all of society. Marx gets that from Hegel, and it leads to some very bad politics, such as the hope that things must get worse because that will then turn into the antithesis and get better from there. A kind of wishful thinking then grows out of not seeing a realistic path forward.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Thinking, Ideas, Get Better

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

  Laurie Foos

  Looks, Elements, Fairy Tale

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron.

  Vanna Bonta

  Dream, Dreamer, Oxymoron

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• What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

  Ridley Scott

  Play, Long, Tolerance

  Interview with Caffeinated Clint, moviehole.net. October 16, 2005.

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• I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Believe, Reality

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• We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Marriage, Teacher, Men

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• I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

  Alva Myrdal

  Weapons, Firsts, Steps

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

  Tennessee Williams

  Good Morning, Morning, Levels

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice-and from that all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow. We've become more materialistic. For balance, I think we need to get back to idealism and patriotism, but also be realistic with our monetary goals.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dream, Thinking, Goal

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• We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

  Zig Ziglar

  Past, Anticipation, Beats

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• It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.

  Hermann Weyl

  Attitude, Real, Drawing

  Hermann Weyl, Frank Wilczek (2009). “Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science”, p.235, Princeton University Press

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• It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

  David Whyte

  Average, Narrative, Truthful

  "The Poetic Narrative Of Our Times" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

  Sean Plott

  Trying, Mediocrity, Path

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• James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking. Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell's proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America. On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.

  Barry Bergdoll

  Fall, Thinking, Intelligent

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• A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

  Peter Drucker

  Names, Organization, Purpose

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