Quotes About Realism

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

No one is perfect. If you continue searching for the perfect person you're going to always come up short.

One can be optimistic without looking at the world with rose-colored glasses, be happy and positive and if dark clouds emerge deal with them realistically...

There's being positive and the there's living in a fu..ing dream world, please wake up and smell the coffee!

Real girls aren't perfect. and perfect girls aren't real.

Be realistic. The chance of mastering something the first time you do it is almost non-existent. Everything takes time to learn and you will make mistakes. Learn from them.

Life isn't perfect at all and it will never be. So we must learn how to live an imperfect life to the best of our abilities.

A good way to overcome things in our lives is to approach every issue with a positive attitude, not just in an optimistic sense, but with a realistic view.

Like a good many men, artists or not, Stone liked to go out with ravishing women who were some kind of crazy, but preferred to go home to somebody sane. With the possible exception of Pablo Picasso, this pattern of behavior is not sustainable for anyone in the long term.

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life." - Lena Gray

You're not fifteen any more. You're not the idealistic kid who thought that, deep down, somewhere, somehow, in some way, life had to be fair." — Callum McGregor

We see things as they are, we project out consequences of our actions, very pragmatically. We don't stir in a lot of hope, we don't turn blind eyes.

I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually

Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals

Things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now

Try to believe that things are neither so good nor so bad as they seem to you now.

The doctor said softly, "Sometimes I think you realists are the most sentimental people in the world.

temptations of wealth, power, and prestige. But this final novel defies categories. If it's a parable of corruption and redemption, as Steinbeck suggests in his epigraph, it's also a lesson in Darwinian survival. The novel insists on a symbolic and highly ironic framework—the first half takes place on Easter weekend in April 1960 and the second on the Fourth of July weekend that same year. Yet the book is also realistic, set in Steinbeck's own

In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to use a Kalashnikov.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

In Israel in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.

What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.