A Quote by Elif Batuman

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

Elif Batuman

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Elif Batuman
American - Author
Born: 1977

I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

Richard Branson

Nixon had lists upon lists upon lists. They were tragic lists saying, 'Smile more,' or, 'Be stronger - remember, it is your job to spiritually uplift the nation.' This understanding of his limitations is heartbreaking.

Peter Morgan

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

George Santayana

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All I want to do is realism and follow the tradition of realism. And explore what realism should be now be after the ubiquity of smartphones. I'm trying to answer the question. I don't think I'll ever have the words, but hopefully I'll have a few images.

Damian Loeb

I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I think it was my first time realizing that there was something besides popcorn movies.

Rachel Morrison

I'm always looking for authenticity in my films. They're based in realism.

Sean Baker

There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Claude McKay

Confidence is not based on you having all the resources needed to take care of yourself; confidence is based upon the truth that God is faithful.

Roy Lessin

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

Soren Kierkegaard

As a chef, I like to be totally prepared. I'm so big on lists. I love lists.

David Burtka

Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.

Mo Ibrahim

Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries we are competing for - the industries of the future - are all based on brainpower.

Lester Thurow

When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.

Salman Rushdie

An organization is really a factory for producing new ideas and for linking those ideas with resources - human resources, financial resources, knowledge resources, infrastructure resources - in an effort to create value. These are processes that you can map, with results that you can measure.

John Kao

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