Realistic Quotes - Page 9

• An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

  Peter Drucker

  Realist, Should, Cynic

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• I'm not a person who goes into a deep depression after a defeat. I try to remain reasonably upbeat. I'm realistic enough to know that results of football matches are often unpredictable and, when all is said and done, things don't always work out as one would wish!

  Kevin Keegan

  Football, Work Out, Trying

  "King Kev's circus act" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2007.

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• We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Country, Immigration, Illegal

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• I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic.

  Roger Staubach

  Sports, Hate, Winning

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• I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.

  Christie Rampone

  Trying, Body, Slow Down

  "Christine Rampone, Olympic Soccer Player, Training Tips And Secrets". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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• I think the animation helps divorce the violence from reality. The sex certainly doesn't look all that realistic. I think the fact that it's animated, we get some leeway because of that.

  Adam Reed

  Sex, Divorce, Reality

  Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

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• World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.

  U Thant

  Heart, Order, Law

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  Manuel Puig

  Long, Stories, Literature

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• Veep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Tv Shows, Political, Tvs

  "The Fix Live". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2016.

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• A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Quality, Film

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• I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy and realistic goals. I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Believe, Skills, Differences

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• We go to school and teachers teach us to read and write but nobody teaches us about the purposeful commitment and intentionality it takes to make our marriages healthy and sustain love over a lifetime. Most people seem to think love should "naturally" sustain itself as it did during the beginning of our relationship with each other -but that just isn't realistic.

  Cindy Wright

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.

  Peter Lynch

  Numbers, People, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• If your values are not related to the Earth or realistic, you'll believe in things that aren't so, which will hurt you in the long run, and as a species, too.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Hurt, Believe

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• What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

  Michael Morell

  Zero, Dark, Want

  www.cia.gov. December 21, 2012.

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• Set realistic goals short and long term.
  2. Plan an orderly and thorough routine to train the entire body.
  3. Make a commitment to stick to your routine for four to six weeks to realize the changes and benefits, develop perseverance and create a habit.
  4. Establish enthusiasm for your training, the driving force to perform successfully.
  5. Ease into an appropriate training program with a wholesome, thoughtful nutritional plan: proper foods, amounts and order of consumption.
  6. Be confident from the beginning that the application of these sound principles will produce the desired results.

  Dave Draper

  Perseverance, Commitment, Thoughtful

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• I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Believe, Politician, Should

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• The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Flower, Simple, Secret

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• These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

  Wadah Khanfar

  Imagination, Balance, Trying

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• There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence, one-man-one-vote. But is equality realistic? If it is not, to insist on equality must lead to regression.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Men, Democracy, Regression

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.48, Editions Didier Millet

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• Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

  Ernest Cline

  Sex, Matter, Computer

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.193, Random House

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• The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is in his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face and his obedience is to his orders. He has been called United States Marine.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Pride, Marine, Fighting

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.482, Open Road Media

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• My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his results in a treatise [Die Lehre von der Energie] exhibiting great independence of thought. But we were separated by his aversion to a realistic conception of energy. Consequently, each of us considered the other only a half ally, toward whom an attitude of caution was necessary.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Attitude, Independence, Allies

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• One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Hopeless Romantic, Other Half, Wells

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• For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.

  Herman Kahn

  Opportunity, People, Growth

  Herman Kahn, William Morle Brown, Léon Martel (1976). “The next 200 years: a scenario for America and the world”, William Morrow & Company

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