Quotes About Realism

Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism

artists of the modern era have carried origami to unprecedented heights of realism and complexity.

the world had to be faced as it was, not as you wished it to be

Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

The deaths in this series are never taken lightly, they're never done with a sense of glee. They weigh on me the same way they weigh on you. These characters are very real to me, and their deaths are upsetting even to me. ( The Walking Dead #167: A Certain Doom)

I think it was Coleridge who said everyone is either a Platonist or an Aristotelian. People who can't stand Aristotle's endless specificity of detail are natural lovers of Plato's soaring generalities. People who can't stand the eternal lofty idealism of Plato welcome the down-to-earth facts of Aristotle.

Only fools expect everything to go the way they want. Expecting

That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

Mant?kl? olmak harika bir ÅŸey olmal? ama yine de mant?kl? bir insan olmak istediÄŸimi düÅŸünmüyorum çünkü mant?kl? insanlar hiç romantik deÄŸiller.

Ama en iyisine de haz?rlanmam?z gerekmez mi? diyerek itiraz etti Anne. En iyi ihtimalin de en kötüsü kadar gerçekleÅŸme ÅŸans? var.

But I ain't young enough to count on what I think bein' right, either, an' I ain't fool enough to figure on things turning out the way I expect 'em to.

Don't say to become a millionaire, because if you were honest with yourself, you are probably not willing to do what it would really take to become a millionaire.)

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier.

he'd wanted to do for years while we dated—the whole princely sweep-you-off-your-feet shit. I liked to keep my feet firmly on the ground unless sex was involved, and you can't really have sex in a horse-drawn carriage; it scares the horses.

First and foremost a pragmatist, he had no time for the interference of unnecessary standards.

any departure from reality that could easily be avoided ought to be avoided.

If you are trying to write realistic fiction and you people it extensively with overdrawn characters, you're working against yourself. You can occasionally get away with filling books and stories with grotesques, but unless your name's Carson McCullers it gets tricky. A less obvious form of caricature consists of giving an otherwise ordinary character a trait or attribute or mannerism on which the reader may focus his attention.

Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.