A Quote by Mary Parker Follett

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Mary Parker Follett

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Mary Parker Follett
September 3, 1868 - December 18, 1933

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Henri Bergson

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

Richard M. Nixon

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

Henry A. Kissinger

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.

Julia Marlowe

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

Peter Hook

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

William Hague

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Monique Roffey

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

Claude McKay

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Oscar Wilde

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.

It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.

John McCain

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

John Wooden

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.

Michael Ignatieff

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

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