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Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at… — Elizabeth Sims
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and… — Robert Genn
Idealism and realism meet in the actual. — Mary Parker Follett
Best movie ever?! Come on, my appearance on Arrested Development had more dynamics, realism and feel to it than the whole trilogy combined. — Zach Braff
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be… — Morris Raphael Cohen
A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor… — Robert Baden-Powell
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create… — Oliver North
I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some… — Michael Maccoby
Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort. — Robert Edmond Jones
If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole… — Abraham Maslow
Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality. — David Harley
TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're… — Bill McKibben
Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism...[because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our… — Price Pritchett
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics,… — Hermann Weyl
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a story lets in… — Ben Lerner
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological… — Satish Kumar
From his style, you’d think Jason Brannon was the dark double of Ray Bradbury. He cares more about character and realism than most writers I’ve… — Michael Arnzen
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's… — Terrence Rafferty
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema… — Peter Greenaway
Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in… — Hans Kmoch
Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The… — Swami Vivekananda
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive… — Parker J. Palmer
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been… — Terri Windling
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for. — John Wooden
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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