Quotes About Realism

A worldly wise and somewhat overbearing Lucy asks the good-hearted and somewhat naive Charlie Brown, 'Charlie, what would you rather do, be captain of the baseball team or marry the cute redheaded girl?' And Charlie replies innocently, 'Why can't I do both?' to which Lucy responds, 'It's the real world, Charlie Brown.' "60

What a pity it is that by such superfluous unrealities he should furnish the public with excuses to evade the overwhelming realism of his moral theology!

He wondered for an idle moment if he'd ever see her again, but it didn't look likely. You have to be realistic, after all, and getting through tomorrow seemed like quite the ambition.

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

I always know what to expect of the things of Mother Earth. Sometimes they are cruel, but it is hard, clean cruelty. They don't torture you with their own weakness.

A family mission statement formed in my head: 'We're a family that tells tall tales to add a little magic to our realism.

Optimism makes you less likely to walk away while not actually increasing your chances of success. That means that being overly optimistic will make you stick to things longer that aren't worthwhile. Better to be well calibrated. Life's too short to spend your time on opportunities that are no longer worthwhile.

Remember, the likelihood of positive and negative futures must add up to 100%. The positive space of backcasting and the negative space of a premortem still have to fit in a finite amount of space. When we see how much negative space there really is, we shrink down the positive space to a size that more accurately reflects reality and less reflects our naturally optimistic nature

When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'

Top Boy' isn't the type of programme that is trying to be righteous and have a happy ending, it is just real.

I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

I'm not ashamed to admit that prohibition is 'impractical.'

My favorite commencement addresses are the ones that get real and don't make too many promises.

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

I like really, properly detailed, described characters.

I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

As I've said all along, I don't make promises I can't keep, and I won't propose things we can't pay for.

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

You don't need to like your protagonists.

I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

Oh, Gram. Don't you think falling in love in one week is about the silliest thing you've ever heard? Not that I'm falling in love, mind you. That's so...so...Harlequin.

You got some idealist idea about man being some noble creature Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and all this crap about how we can change human nature. You can't change it, you're beating your head against a brick wall. People have had a couple of million years to change and they ain't changed yet, have they?

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.