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The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. — Paul Hawken

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. — Jim Harrison

Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating. — Peter Shepherd

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem. — Carl Rogers

Leave every lady with the impression of friendship, and each and every gentleman with an unrealistic hope of much more. — Victoria Alexander

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. — Richard L. Evans

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative. — Paolo Bacigalupi

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. — Michael Howard

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life. — Lysa TerKeurst

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. — Will Smith

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

When we impose unrealistic expectations on ourselves, it's natural to force them on everyone else. — Jen Hatmaker

The greater your dreams, the more unrealistic they sound. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises. — Gary Hopkins

For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic. — Billy Graham

What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time? — Lysa TerKeurst

It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time. — Andrew Weil

Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic. — Simon Sinek

I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic. — Patricia Richardson

Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn't able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these. — Lysa TerKeurst

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. — Adam Phillips

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. — Mother Teresa

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

Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies. — Pamela Cummins

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

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

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic. — J. Philippe Rushton

In his refusal to believe in anything supernatural or inherently evil, he was as unrealistic as an old voodoo queen who sees spirits everywhere. — Anne Rice

Never' is an unquantifiable and unrealistic amount of time. — Ruth Cardello

And just like that, I knew what I wanted. Something I had always wanted. But it was so unrealistic it hadn't even made it to my wish list. — David Levithan

If you think that you can please everyone that comes in your way, you are being unrealistic. That is why you need to find your 'soul-mates'. — Assegid Habtewold

Dreams are unrealistic, impractical, demanding - and absolutely essential to living a rich and fulfilling life. — Ralph Marston

Some girls go for bad boys because they like the challenge of changing them - which is usually unrealistic. — Mark Salling

Vegetarians are at best kindly but unrealistic. At worst they are delusional sentimentalists. — Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Unrealistic? I think not, that bee was about to murder me. — Devyn Dawson

I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal. — Dan Brown

The idea of quick methods to success in this life or the Afterlife is a deception, unrealistic and unislamic. — Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar

People have sex. All kinds of sex. I find it impossible to write about relationships without including sex. It seems unrealistic and irresponsible. — Brad Fraser

It's practically common sense that men should have unrealistic expectations of women's looks, and yet here we see it's just not true. — Christian Rudder

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. — Michael Novak

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 perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not. — Michael Pollan

Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals. — Simon Sinek

It was unrealistic to expect to be constantly in the happiest place. In real life, you're lucky just to be always somewhere nearby. — Sarah Dessen

Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic. — Tim Ferriss

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't. — Jenni Schaefer

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it. — Noam Chomsky

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want. — Ethan Zuckerman

There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines. — Brian Tracy

Expectations are the shackles that will not permit something to be what it actually is. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life. - Lena Gray — Maeve Binchy

Unrealistic expectations are often the seeds of bitterly stuffed emotions. — Lysa TerKeurst

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. — Albert Ellis

There are realistic limitations, but it's the unrealistic ones that are malignant to our potential. — Andi Jones

Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories — Jillian Dodd

Coffee has given me unrealistic expectations of my productivity
-T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

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

Disappointment doesn't stem from expectations. It stems from unrealistic or unreasonable expectations. — Sue Fitzmaurice

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

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

The more I try to be perfect; the more I fail. — Harley King

There is an automatic assumption that negative is realistic and positive is unrealistic. — Susan Jeffers

Too much planning implies you've got it all under control. That's boring, unrealistic, and dangerous. — Twyla Tharp

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

So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was - but I wanted to be there. — Aasif Mandvi

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

Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair. — Eraldo Banovac

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. — Marcus Aurelius

As long as we have children seeking unrealistic dreams, anything is possible. — H.S. Crow

You're an excellent judge of character, Sarene - except your own. Often our own opinions of ourselves are the most unrealistic. — Brandon Sanderson

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

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic — Susan Jeffers

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

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

You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances. — S.A. Tawks

A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.' — Jane Lindskold

That's a little unrealistic, don't you think?
So was the Final Solution, but it got pretty far, Leo points out. — Jodi Picoult

The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — Steve Berry

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations. — Alexander McCall Smith

I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation. — Jack Tretton

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be. — Pepper Schwartz

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk. — Vikas Swarup

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result. — Anthony Daniels

I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film. — Robyn Davidson

Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion. — Steven Pressfield

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

The right to free speech and the unrealistic expectation to never be offended can not coexist. — Philip Sharp

People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded. — Frederick Lenz

Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you. — Martina Navratilova

I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic. — Julianne Moore

In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created. — Crowder