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Unrealistic? I think not, that bee was about to murder me. -- Devyn Dawson
Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises. -- Gary Hopkins
Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. -- Jim Harrison
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not. -- Michael Pollan
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. -- Albert Ellis
I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal. -- Dan Brown
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. -- Richard L. Evans
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations. -- Stephen Covey
We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar. -- Emmanuelle Chriqui
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic. -- Sia Furler
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be. -- Pepper Schwartz
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. -- John F. Kennedy
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be. -- Max Minghella
There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines. -- Kate Beckinsale
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. -- Thomas Sowell
The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil. -- Len Wein
It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career. -- Jo Brand
I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. -- Stephen Harper
Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed. -- Drake
I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending. -- Marian Keyes
It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets. -- Whitfield Diffie
I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business. -- Wentworth Miller
It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does. -- Tom Rath
The people that live in these districts, they don't want to watch it. They don't want to see their children die or killing other people. The only people that it is entertainment to are the people in the capital that have been brainwashed and are misguided and living in a completely unrealistic kind of world. -- Liam Hemsworth
I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician. -- Dave Grohl
I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan! -- Mindy Kaling
I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that think that the immigration issue is more valuable to them unsolved. That it gives them something to talk about, that they can go back to Hispanic communities and make unrealistic promises every two years and win votes. -- Marco Rubio
The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. -- Will Smith
Certainty is an unrealistic and unattainable ideal -- William Lane Craig
Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories -- Jillian Dodd
There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines. -- Brian Tracy
Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic. -- Tim Ferriss
Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals. -- Simon Sinek
People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. -- Mother Teresa
I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic. -- Julianne Moore
It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters. -- David Sedaris
It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time. -- Andrew Weil
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not -- Michael Pollan
For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic. -- Billy Graham
Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations. -- Sue Fitzmaurice
I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic. -- Patricia Richardson
I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk. -- Vikas Swarup
Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem. -- Carl Rogers
Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life. -- Lysa TerKeurst
The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. -- Paul Hawken
There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic. -- Susan Jeffers
To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic. -- J. Philippe Rushton
Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you. -- Martina Navratilova
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic. -- Susan Jeffers
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. -- Adam Phillips
Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want. -- Ethan Zuckerman
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result. -- Anthony Daniels
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating. -- Peter Shepherd
Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life. -- Ralph Marston
I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation. -- Jack Tretton
Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies. -- Pamela Cummins
In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created. -- Crowder
Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic. -- Simon Sinek
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. -- Michael Howard
If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard. -- Scott Frost
Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic. -- Mark Salling
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It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it. -- Noam Chomsky
A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture. -- Frank Sinatra, Jr.
It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want. -- Helen Gurley Brown
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. -- Michael Novak
Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. -- Chris Guillebeau
I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on. -- Evan Davis
Change words like difficult/impossible/unrealistic to words like challenging/fun/daring/exciting, and then get back to working/playing/competing/winning -- Jamie Valentin
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping -- Peggy Noonan
I still have this unrealistic faith, that one day, my ship will come in. More people will discover, understand and buy my stuff. -- Jill Sobule
I knew it was unrealistic to think I could build an institution overnight. But if I took baby steps, eventually it would happen. -- Russell Simmons
I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want. -- Mariella Frostrup
To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream. -- Andree Putman
Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons. -- Elaine L. Jack
What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that. -- Mitchell Hurwitz
The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by. -- Zoe Cassavetes
You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are. -- Jeph Jacques
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. -- David Lilienthal
It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action. -- Dalai Lama
What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were scared people. -- Naomi Shihab Nye
The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified. -- Helen Suzman
Meditation is not impractical or unrealistic, nor is it difficult to integrate with any lifestyle or age, in that it's timeless, although it occurs in time. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very excessive and unrealistic demand. -- Paul Tagliabue
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness. -- Satoshi Kanazawa
I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going. -- Neill Blomkamp
There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating. -- Frederick Lenz
I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters -- David Sedaris
Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy. -- Jennifer Lawrence
It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom. -- Dalai Lama
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy. -- Orhan Pamuk
Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent. -- Judith Guest
Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what is physically realistic for the planet. -- Mark Lynas
Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere. -- Karen McDougal
The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on. -- Lance Armstrong
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done. -- Mike Ditka
In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic. -- Ray Kurzweil
I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic. -- Chris Ware
The probabilitation of possibilities is the mother of many unrealistic ideas,uninformative decisions,inappropriate measures and unfair actions because most of the times we were approximate where we needth to be exact. -- Mpho Leteng
As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's an unrealistic expectation. Black people don't love anybody but themselves. -- John McWhorter
Theres such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just cant compare yourself to people in magazines. -- Kate Beckinsale
How would you possibly sell 700 companies in a fire sale and hope to get what they were worth?It's just an unrealistic sort of standard they're trying to hold [Donald Trump] to. -- Rand Paul
Rachel, we've been over this. This is what I do," he said, crumbs of whiten cheese falling from the knife. "Find a way for your lofty, unrealistic ideals to deal with it. -- Kim Harrison
It was totally unrealistic to think that because there had been wildly unlikely coincidences in the immediate past, that there would be more wildly unlikely ones turning up in orderly succession. Yet... -- Murray Leinster
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. -- William Eldridge Odom
I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance. -- Suze Orman
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic. -- William Eldridge Odom
The author says this socially respectable option NOT to parent has actually made parenthood more stressful. The knowledge that parents have chosen that role allows for unrealistic buildup of expectations and unavoidable second-guessing. -- Jennifer Senior
This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic. -- Ian Smillie
As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified. -- Cate Blanchett
We [need to] stop treating each other like that, stop calling each other fat and stop with these unrealistic expectations for women. It's disappointing that the media keeps it alive and fuels that fire. -- Jennifer Lawrence
I am not well qualified to criticize the theory of rational expectations and the efficient market hypothesis because as a market participant I considered them so unrealistic that I never bothered to study them. -- George Soros
When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage. -- Pauline Collins
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations. -- Orhan Pamuk

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