Quotes About Realism

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

Reality is what it is

una victoria electoral de la izquierda habría inducido a los fascistas a tratar de subir al poder mediante el habitual golpe de Estado militar. En todo caso habría que enfrentarse a ellos con las armas en la mano. Los acontecimientos han confirmado la corrección de este cálculo; el análisis de los anarquistas era más realista que el de los políticos tradicionales.

The negative side of marriage remains long after the positive goals have been discarded.

But cynicism is only disappointed idealism.

Even back then I understood the real purpose of literature. I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized. —Margaret Atwood

What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

Realism and art cannot live together.

We are pragmatists. We don't stick to any ideology. Does it work? Let's try it, and if it does work, fine, let's continue it. If it doesn't work, toss it out, try another one. We are not enamored with any ideology.

It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

Imagining the worst doesn't keep it from happening

story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the sinister mystery that surrounds them, and in this real world the arrival of lions means that the story is about to get much worse

here, they looked as lifelike as any you'd find at Madame Tussauds wax museum. Even weirder: intermingled with the police was an assortment of what I'd technically define as thugs

Why should you expect everything to work out successful? You're old enough to know better.

Humans were neither all good nor all bad—they were just human and fallible, herself included. With

Saddam's politics was the politics of the thug, of violence from the outset of his reign. Realism suggests that some people are not going to be tractable in response to purely peaceable overtures. Indeed, it certainly appears that some individuals, including notably Saddam Hussein, will cheerfully help themselves to a yard for every inch offered by well-meaning peacemakers. When we are dealing with customers as tough as that, there is no alternative to being tough ourselves.

depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.

for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.