Quotes About Realism

Freedom, in the abstract, is irresponsibility for your choices. Freedom, in reality, is total responsibility for your choices. Treat freedom with the responsibility and realism it deserves.

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.

I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.

reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

If you don't put anything in place, do not expect miraculous results to appear.

It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

The practical statesman took precedence over the uncompromising prophet.

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.

Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

And, of course, as savvy readers can appreciate, when software developers say it's going to take a year to get something done, they really mean two years. It's not because they're incompetent, or that they are calendar-challenged, it's just that estimating the time to do something we've never done before is something we suck at. And, by nature, we're often optimistic animals.

Extremely intense love is often rejected by the beloved just because it is so demanding and unrealistic.

The image of the tragic artist who lays down his tools rather than fall short of his impeccable ideals holds no romance for me. I don't see this path as heroic. I think it's far more honorable to stay in the game - even if you're objectively losing the game - than to excuse yourself from participation because of your delicate sensibilities. But in order to stay in the game, you must let go of your fantasy of perfection.

The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: "So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun." Perfectionism

May I also urge you to forget about passion? Perhaps you are surprised to hear this from me, but I am somewhat against passion. Or at least, I am against the preaching of passion. I don't believe in telling people, "All you need to do is to follow your passion, and everything will be fine." I think this can be an unhelpful and even cruel suggestion at times.

I've realized that one of the most unkind things I can do to somebody is to put them on a pedestal because very soon, inevitably, they're going to do something that's going to knock them off it, and then I'm going to have a lot of trouble with that because I really needed you to be something else. And that's inhumane." –Elizabeth Gilbert

Je reste optimiste tout en me préparant au pire, maman, ça te semble bien comme compromis ?

Realistically, being positive isn't always being realistic.