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• We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.

  Susan Jeffers

  Believe, Positive Thinking, Negative

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.127, Random House

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• Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: "You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer." Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, "It's 5:00 in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Morning, Humor

  "A Night at the Met". Studio album by Robin Williams, August 9, 1986.

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• There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant . . . . The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Real, People, Giving

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• Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Prayer, Men, Our Generation

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

  J. I. Packer

  Determination, Discovery, Knowing

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult it has become merely to get a realistic conversation started on issues such as climate change or genetically modified organisms.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Dark, Issues, Climate

  "Attacks paid for by big business are 'driving science into a dark era" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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• If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just catches you and you think it is absurd or mysterious and you just take the picture. You dont want to see the bare reality of what happened. I took the picture as the picture, not as the realistic story of what happened.

  Eva Fuka

  Reality, Thinking, Want

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• Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.

  Mac Anderson

  Dream, Keys, Goal

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• In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it.

  Liz Murray

  Mean, Years, People

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• I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.

  Martin Scorsese

  Looks, Way, Film

  Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. March 7, 1976.

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• But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

  Rick Yancey

  Lying, Light, Choices

  Rick Yancey (2012). “The Isle of Blood”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, May, Belief

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.11, Vintage

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• Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

  Marilu Henner

  Stress, Control Of Your Life, Keys

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• A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

  H. L. Mencken

  Faith, Atheist, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.11, Vintage

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• The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

  Golda Meir

  Government, World, Regimes

  "No Laughing Matter: The Value of Humor in Educational Leadership". Book by Ed. D Palestini, 2012.

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• If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Education, Hard Work

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mignon McCarthy (1990). “Kareem”, Random House Incorporated

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• First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

  Walpola Rahula

  Optimistic, Buddhism, Views

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• That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reality, Common Sense, Brain

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• Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jobs, Unraveling

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.89, David C Cook

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• Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

  Karl Popper

  Happiness, Fighting, Inner Peace

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.465, Routledge

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• Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• Be realistic, demand the impossible!

  Che Guevara

  Ambition, Demand, Impossible

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• Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

  Kenneth Burke

  Mean, Essentials, Use

  Kenneth Burke (1969). “A Rhetoric of Motives”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

  Rick Hansen

  Motivational, Goal, Challenges

  Rick Hansen, Joan Laub (1994). “Going the distance: 7 steps to personal change”

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