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• I think everybody who really wants to change things has to allow themselves to be angry in a constructive way, and you have to fully understand the thing you're trying to change. We really need to get serious about this now; there needs to be real, effective programs. I think there needs to be a little bit more strategy involved and a little more realism, to be pragmatic and realistic, looking at the way we as women contribute to the problem. Once the second half of the population stops doing it, it's going to end.

  Christina Ricci

  Real, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

  Saul Bellow

  Art

  Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel (1994). “Conversations with Saul Bellow”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What's the point of being realistic? It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on, but fortunately Edison didn't think so.

  Will Smith

  Thinking, Light, Being Real

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• People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Philosophy, Selfish, Struggle

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p. 8), 1949.

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• Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.

  Satish Kumar

  War, People, Leader

  "Soul man" by John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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• CEOs must master three essential attributes, realistic optimism, subservience to purpose, and finding order in chaos. One's capacity in each determines their ability to cope with today's business environment.

  Justin Menkes

  Optimism, Purpose, Chaos

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Often we can change things, and a realistic attitude - including envisioning worse case scenarios - actually helps to accomplish that change. But if you truly cannot do anything about something, then why on earth would you want to make things even worse for you by falling into despair? It seems like adding a self-inflicting injury to the already existing one.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Attitude, Fall, Despair

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm not able to completely escape naturalism. It's very difficult to escape from naturalism without being too dry. That's what I try to do in my cinema - escape naturalism and do films that are, at the same time, realistic but have a lot of fantasy. It's very difficult in cinema to get away from what life is about, from real life. The way the actors work has to be realistic - you can't do Baroque acting - so it's very complicated. And, we're human beings, so we're not perfect. I'm trying to do something different.

  Philippe Garrel

  Real, Perfect, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

  Aldous Huxley

  Light, Numbers, People

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.

  Betty Edwards

  Children, Giving Up, Passion

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• 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.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Death, Science, Tree

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• Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands apart, ... He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus the lives of black people.

  Daniel J. Sullivan

  Drama, Gay, Dark

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• As the inevitable discussion proceeds in the months ahead, this memo should provide both perspective and a reality check. President Bush's approval numbers will again fall back to more realistic levels fairly quickly. All were quite successful on Election Day.

  Matthew Dowd

  Fall, Successful, Reality

  "GOP memo predicts drop in Bush poll numbers" By Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2003.

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• Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Reality, Ifs And

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.97, Penguin

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• Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.

  Jim Knight

  Real, Squirrels, People

  "Grey squirrels targeted" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2006.

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• I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

  Fernando Botero

  Reality, Form

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• Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

  Albert Camus

  Religious, Art, Mean

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.270, Vintage

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• I'm allergic to over-promising. I'm allergic to exaggeration, because I've been in schools for a large part of my life, and I still go to schools. What I want is realistic, evidence-based kinds of things that know the history of efforts to individualize instruction and why they flop before, so you can have a much smarter approach to reforming schools, to improve what goes on in classrooms.

  Larry Cuban

  School, Effort, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.

  Claudio Reyna

  Soccer, Sports, Mirrors

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• Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what is physically realistic for the planet.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Global Warming, Runaway

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• We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Country, Immigration, Illegal

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• I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic.

  Roger Staubach

  Sports, Hate, Winning

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• I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.

  Christie Rampone

  Trying, Body, Slow Down

  "Christine Rampone, Olympic Soccer Player, Training Tips And Secrets". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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• It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a 70 percent chance that the whole thing will fail, then that kind of relieves the pressure of self-doubt.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Writing, Self

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

  Peter Drucker

  Realist, Should, Cynic

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