Quotes About Realism

You have to take things as they are, not how you hear they're supposed to be.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

There are no white knights, Soph. Not like in your stories. You have to see people for what they are, not what you want them to be.

Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!

Webb read fantasy; Jude read realism

I see humanity's flaws, but I see the goodness too.

Men come and go but bills are forever.

Golf is like everything else. You plan. Then real life intervenes.

We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I think I am a realist. The reality is that things change; the question is, how will I perceive that change, and am I willing to change along with it? It may seem hard to believe, but it's catastrophe that offers the most promise for an even richer life.

Questioning leaders are realists and don't inflate the importance of their own efforts. They take the time to drill down into problems by asking questions. Questioning leaders recognize that everyone is needed, and that everyone should serve one another, if the organization is to be successful.

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.

Only very young people believe that change is always for the better.

Está lección autobiográfica no lo es en realidad: sea como sea, no tengo otra salida. Sino escribo lo que he visto sufriría igual; y quizás un poco más. Un poco solamente, insisto en esto. La escritura no alivia apenas. Describe, delimita. Introduce una sombra de coherencia,una idea de realismo. Uno sigue chapoteando en una niebla sangrienta, pero hay algunos puntos de referencia. El caos se queda a unos pocos metros. Pobre éxito, en realidad.

Writing brings scant relief. It retraces, it delimits. It lends a touch of coherence, the idea of a kind of realism. One stumbles around in a cruel fog, but there is the odd pointer. Chaos is no more than a few feet away. A meagre victory, in truth.

Modern life is very difficult for people who are unprepared. But this new environment will eventually facilitate more realistic relationships between people.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so, Mutnodjmet.

What do you expect from yourself? Is it realistic? Is it even possible? Is it in line with your passions and goals? Is it actually someone else's expectation that you have assumed for yourself? Are you sabotaging your confidence with unattainable or unnecessary ideals?

NEVER Teach a Pig to Sing, It Wastes Your Time and Annoys the Pig.

Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.

I'm not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I've just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano show and drinking milkshakes: not exactly rose petals and gazing into each other's eyes at the top of the Empire State Building or whatever. I'm pretty sure my parents have gazed into each other's eyes maybe once, and that was so my mom could put eyedrops in my dad's eyes.

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.