Realistic Thinking Quotes

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

You would want to play in every game if possible, but I am realistic.

Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they practise a magic inherited from savagery, but simply and solely because they have sense. They see at a glance what most men could not see with searchlights and telescopes.... They are the supreme realists of the race.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

Everybody wants to be a scorer. Everybody can't be a scorer.

I was a Fine Art major. You do a bit of everything until the final year, when you specialise. I did pencil drawing and sculpture. It's a pretty well-rounded fine art education. I thought that it was viable option to make a living out of art. I'm not sure if I was thinking realistically; maybe I never was. But it had great appeal.

I think I'm pragmatic.

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

You weigh your pros and cons and what's real. You want to play baseball? Yeah. You want to go to school? If that's the best option, than that is what it is.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But now, I'm more convinced than ever that his political positions as well as his spiritual positions arise out of such precise and realistic thinking that they're extremely sound.

A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

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.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

Most things are not as risky as they seem.

There are no silver bullets.

I'm a pretty realistic person.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game.

That era of designers being away with the fairies is gone... You've got to live in the real world.

For me, I'm not going to be hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I know that.

One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.