Quotes About Realism

Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest that we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Para un Yo ideal racional, que no sea malsano, se necesita una mezcla balanceada de ambición y realismo.

si el optimismo es rígido y desproporcionado deja de ser funcional.

No hay duelo saludable sin realismo duro y crudo.

Amar sin apegos es amar sin miedos. Es asumir el derecho a explorar intensamente el mundo, a hacerse cargo de uno mismo y a buscar un sentido de vida. También significa tener una actitud realista frente al amor, afianzar el autorespeto y fortalecer el autocontrol. Es disfrutar de la dupla placer/seguridad, sin volverla imprescindible. Es hacer las paces con Dios y la incertidumbre. Es tirar la certeza a la basura y dejar que el universo se haga cargo de uno. Es aprender a renunciar.

Aunque los románticos entren en crisis y el idealismo amoroso se vuelva añicos, el realismo afectivo es imprescindible para poder desapegarse. Nadie niega que el amor sea el principal motor de la relación de pareja; lo que estoy afirmando es que de ninguna manera es suficiente per se para que una relación prospere.

Te amo, pero te dejo", es una mezcla entre liberación y realismo afectivo.

I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or weaknesses.

Errors in the initial budget are not always innocent. The authors of unrealistic plans are often driven by the desire to get the plan approved—whether by their superiors or by a client—supported by the knowledge that projects are rarely abandoned unfinished merely because of overruns in costs or completion times. In

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Errors in the initial budget are not always innocent. The authors of unrealistic plans are often driven by the desire to get the plan approved—whether by their superiors or by a client—supported by the knowledge that projects are rarely abandoned unfinished merely because of overruns in costs or completion times.

He looked older, harder, perhaps wiser. The Middle East was like that. It turned hope to despair, idealists into Machiavellians.

Do not expect the combat fairy to come bonk you with the combat wand and suddenly make you capable of doing things that you never rehearsed before. It will not happen.

there is no way to make all of the world better for all of the people.

Hillary: Live With It' is no rallying cry.

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

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

What's the good news? -Pardon? -You said the bad news is we're going the wrong way. -There isn't any good news. Just because there's bad news doesn't mean there's good news, too.

I am content. While my shrewd fellows rode about the world to seek and to attain power and wisdom, I have elected, as and unpractical realist, to follow after beauty.

The present supply of realism is nothing but the publisher's answer to a cheap and fickle demand...if realism be a form of art, the newspaper is a permanent contribution to literature.