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Realism Quotes

"Plans are just guesses. Long-term plans, made in detail, are just shy of impossible."

"Be more loyal to reality than to feeling. Keep it real."

"Without a solid, realistic and detailed plan, the goal is nothing more than a pipe dream. And without the commitment to follow through on that plan and put forth the necessary effort, the dream is nothing more than a good intention."

"The impatient idealist says: Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace"

"To take what there is and use it without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived."

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

"I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are and not as they ought to be"

"A man’s got to know his limitations"

"To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don’t buy into the notion that because it’s fantastic, it should be unrealistic"

"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be"

"What is there that is too dirty, too sordid, too depressing to be read about or spoken of? If literature cannot deal with the grimy underbelly of life, then what is it for?"

"A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts"

"There is no good asking for a simple life."

"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."

"I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year."

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