Realistic Quotes - Page 26

• To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

  Jillian Medoff

  Writing, Character, Fiction

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Fiction, Fantasy, Novel

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• There's no better feeling, even if I've won a race, than recording a personal best. It's setting yourself personal goals, but also realistic goals.

  Jenny Meadows

  Race, Goal, Feelings

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The only advice I could give is to stay positive and focused in terms of what your goals are, and stick to them. If you can't attain those goals, maybe they're not realistic. At this level only a small percentage of players make it, so you've really got to strive to get what you want.

  Filo Tiatia

  Player, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it.

  Dwight Macdonald

  War, Character, Rejection

  Dwight Macdonald (194?). “Root is man: progressivism vrs. radicalism”

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• You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time.

  Lemar

  Mean, Today, Tomorrow

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Making it [police movie] as realistic as possible. I'm honored to be here because it doesn't happen that often from what I hear. They keep people like me away. "Come down and say 'Hello' and get out!"

  Ralph Sarchie

  People, Police, Down And

  Source: collider.com

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• I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

  Sharon Creech

  Beautiful, Strong, Children

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• Maybe some people got sick, but what I saw was people applauding the effects. When the helicopter zombie stood up, people applauded. When a guy gets the top of his head lopped off, are they applauding that some horrible thing happened to a person, or are they applauding how it was technically pulled off in a realistic way?

  Tom Savini

  People, Sick, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• With their endless vacations and pint-sized workweeks, Europe can't produce enough of anything - including more Europeans - to save themselves from doom. So the French and Germans have only one realistic strategy when it comes to revitalizing their comatose economies: Wait for the U.S. economy to rise high enough to float their petits bateaux.

  Denis Boyles

  Vacation, Europe, Waiting

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• For many people, the only reason to do anything is that it's best for them individually. And I think that's why planners have to be more realistic about devising policies so the stakeholders will say, "I see what you mean - that'll help me." I think expecting people to do the right thing for the right reason leads to a lot of failure in public policy.

  Donald Shoup

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: la.streetsblog.org

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• I didn't think that and I didn't verbalize that to myself or within meetings that we ever had, but we wanted to make a hard-nosed, gritty, realistic spy thriller. Roger talked about using lenses. He shot hi-def, but using anamorphic lenses that he'd found from this warehouse. He was so thrilled with that. Him and Romain [Lacourbas] were just like kids in a toy store with their lenses.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Kids, Thinking, Spy

  Source: collider.com

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• The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute—the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures—is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Religious, Loss, Men

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• Allen Anderson speaks from the heart about subjects he loves; this enthralls audiences everywhere. His outlook is realistic but invariably positive, encouraging everyone to expect the best. Audience feedback is replete with superlatives.

  Henry Koster

  Heart, Speak, Feedback

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• A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

  Peter Drucker

  Names, Organization, Purpose

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• James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking. Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell's proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America. On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.

  Barry Bergdoll

  Fall, Thinking, Intelligent

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• There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

  Sean Plott

  Trying, Mediocrity, Path

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• Place a picture of someone that looks like what you want to look like when you reach your weight loss and fitness goal somewhere nearby. However, be sure to keep it realistic to your own body type. This is a visual reminder of what the end result of your fitness and weight loss program will be, helping to keep you motivated.

  Jackie Warner

  Loss, Goal, Body Types

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• The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

  Byron Nelson

  Attitude, Firsts, Steps

  Byron Nelson, Larry Dennis (1976). “Shape your swing the modern way”, Golf Digest/Tennis

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• To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

  Kamala Harris

  Meaningful, Thinking, Justice

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• But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.

  Jude Morgan

  Knives, Kitchen, Looks

  Jude Morgan (2011). “The Taste of Sorrow”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

  Will Smith

  Being Real

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• Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

  Seth Godin

  Giving Up, Believe, Being Real

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.29, Penguin

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• The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.

  Raul Grijalva

  People, Majority, Immigration

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• Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

  Gilberto Hernandez

  Book, Artist, Space

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