Realistic Perspective Quotes

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

To govern well, one must see things as they are.

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

People are realistic enough to appreciate what the market values of different people are.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

'Zakhm' has no political agenda. But, it certainly says things as they are.

When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a paradise of which they have been beguiled; but when they are shown it properly, and in due time, they see it such as it really is, equally shared by pain and pleasure, hope and disappointment.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.

I have a hard time making movies that affirm life and say life is a good and happy place. That's not true about the world.

Maybe I just look at things as a humanist: I like looking at people in a realistic way more than looking at them in a positive way.

I have some realistic humility which comes from my first career as a writer. I wrote for other people for ten years. I saw some incredible egos not based on any reality. They were great when they were on top and awful when they weren't. I learned a lot about how to treat people.

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

I know when I'm bad, I know when I'm good, and I know when I'm everything in between. I don't have any delusions of grandeur or delusions of failure. In terms of my work, I've got a pretty cold honest eye.

I don't think or write from big ideals.

Life, as I see it, is R-rated.

I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

Real people - everyone is not just one thing.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and smiles when it's happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin' takes courage.