Realistic View Quotes

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

... the president [Barak Obama] has failed to finish the job of securing radiological material in hospitals and industrial facilities, or to crack down on the threats from bioweapons and toxic chemicals. Second, with his revised EPA guidelines on dirty-bomb damage, Obama has taken a tentative but insufficient step toward leveling with the public in a way that deprives terrorists of their ability to spread hysteria. That mirrors what he has tried to do more generally: tentatively steer Americans toward the realistic view that while terrorism is inevitable, it is not an existential or apocalyptic threat—–unless we treat it like the apocalypse.

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

I've never been an optimist.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

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 always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Nobody lives happily ever after, because that is extremely unrealistic.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

You can't improve if you don't know what the real situation is.

I'm always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.

There are many different ways to look at a situation, and it's important to look at things the way they are.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

That is the nature of the British psyche. It's very blunt, plain, very linear. It's pragmatic: it records life as it is.

When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

I certainly don't think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.