Quotes About Realism

It's not about lowering your standards—it's about maturing and having reasonable expectations.

First and foremost, Austen was sensible. She didn't feed her romantic imagination to excess.

When we set standards that are much too high for where we are at this moment, standards we cannot possibly achieve right now, then we will always fail.

You can't get milk from a hardware store. So stop asking for something that can't be given. And look for what is offered. She saw the fork of food, and the thin lips that rarely smiled at them, blowing on it.

You can't get milk from a hardware store. So stop asking for something that can't be given. And look for what is offered.

All art is but imitation of nature.

This year in school she read Romeo and Juliet, and she told me pragmatically that Romeo was a wimp. He should have just taken Juliet and run away with her, swallowed his pride and worked at some medieval McDonald's. What about the poetry, I asked her. What about the tragedy? And Rebecca told me that that's all very well and good but it isn't the way things happen in real life.

Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.

Let no man or woman call its events improbable. The war has driven that word from our vocabulary, and melodrama has become the prosiest realism.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan." Stick to the good plan. Traditional

A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Las personas se están preparando para el éxito cuando deberían estarse preparando para el fracaso. Fracasar es mucho más común que triunfar; la pobreza está más generalizada que la riqueza; y la desilusión es más normal que los logros.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly just because you're a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to charge you because you're a vegetarian

3. The Unrealistic Expectation Trap For some reason, many people think everything in life should be easy, and when they find out that achievement takes effort, they give up. But success takes hard work.

Anyone that thinks they can be blissful 100% of the time will be disappointed. Anyone that thinks love is a magic wand that will make you blissful 100% of the time will start asking the above questions.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveler.

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

We ought not to desire the impossible.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

The audience in the country has evolved, and for them, it is about real characters.