Quotes of Practicality - somelinesforyou

“ Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else. ”

- Hob Broun

“ Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. ”

- Richard Nixon

“ There is nothing so practical as a good theory. ”

- Kurt Lewin

“ A realist is a man who knows both the world and his own dreams. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Nothing is more real than nothing. ”

- Samuel Beckett

“ Reality itself is too obvious to be true. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ Realism…has no more to do with reality than anything else. ”

- Hob Broun

“ You can get all A's and still flunk life. ”

- Walker Percy

“ The reality of any place is what its people remember of it. ”

- Charles Kuralt

“ If you can't solve it, it's not a problem — it's reality. ”

- Barbara Coloroso

“ Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Things ain't what they used to be and never were. ”

- Will Rogers

“ The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. ”

- Shunryu Suzuki

“ We may all have come on different ships, but we are all in the same boat now. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Reality is a product of our dreams, decisions and actions, you have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That makes you a winner right there. ”

- Venus Williams

“ I don't want realism. I want magic! ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason... that is its reason for existing. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ Realism can break a writer's heart. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic. ”

- Dylan Moran

“ Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism. ”

- Daniel Bell

“ Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. ”

- Margaret Smith

“ He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. ”

- Jackson Pollock

“ No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it. ”

- Raymond Holliwell

“ Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality - a concept of 'what we want out of life' against which we judge our experiences. ”

- Jane Roberts

“ Reality is something you rise above. ”

- Liza Minnelli

“ To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ”

- Elbert Hubbard
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