Quotes About Realistic

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

We can only describe actual performance goals that are realistic

If you have realistically low expectations, you'll end up pleased in most circumstances.

Apocalyptic shows us what we're not seeing. It can't be composed or spoken by the powers that be, because they are the sustainers of "the way things are" whose operation justifies itself by crowning itself as "the way things ought to be" and whose greatest virtue is in being "realistic." Thinking through what we mean by "realistic" is where apocalyptic begins.

Being above the petty factional and emotional fights of the bureaucracy, being of course neither a man of the right or of the left but disinterested and realistic, which meant that all things being equal, he was more a man of the status quo than anything else.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Look at the home makeover shows. It isn't realistic to tear down a house, rebuild it, and decorate it in less then a week, but there aren't people out there criticizing those shows.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

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

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

A vision has to be within reach not in the air. It has to be achievable.

Racial identity can be condemned, fought, ignored, or cultivated, but it is unrealistic for a society to pretend it does not exist.

down-to-earth.

The Theatre of the Absurd, in the sense that it is truly the contemporary theatre, facing as it does man's condition as it is, is the Realistic theatre of our time; and that the supposed Realistic theatre—the term used here to mean most of what is done on Broadway—in the sense that it panders to the public need for self-congratulation and reassurance and presents a false picture of ourselves to ourselves is … really and truly The Theatre of the Absurd.

Maybe Cinderella was the bad guy in the story, and her stepsisters were just nerdy girls who wanted a boyfriend. How politically correct was it, really, to make the villains ugly? And how realistic? In my experience, it was usually the pretty people who were mean to the ugly ones, not the other way.

Flowers would be wasted on me. I don't like valentines. I don't need gifts. I'm a pragmatic romantic.

The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.

I'm quite a dreamy person but I'm also very realistic about my possibilities, so if this was meant to remain a hobby I would have kept it as that. But I feel like music goes in waves and when you get an upward swing, you have to push it as far as you can.

I am a bad planner, I cannot really plan my future, so I am keeping my expectations very grounded.

I personally don't have plans. I have always been a deal-with-it-as-it-comes person.

Think realistically with what you're going to eat - don't plant 200 radishes!

I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.