A Quote by Monique Roffey

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

Monique Roffey

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Been Hard Hard Work Idealism Love Realism Replaced Romantic Work Youth

Quote Author

Monique Roffey
British - Writer
Born: 1965

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

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

John Wooden

Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to appeal to it or to use it and they are the losers as a consequence. We have no cause to complain if, having neglected the idealism of youth, we see others come along, take it, and harness it to their cause - and against our own.

Douglas Hyde

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

Richard M. Nixon

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

Sargent Shriver

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 through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

Albert Schweitzer

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 false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Morris Raphael Cohen

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

Phil Donahue

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

Henry A. Kissinger

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Mary Parker Follett

The Negro problem, like all other political problems, is fundamentally a moral issue. This is realism, not idealism. Those of my colleagues who believe that they are particularly 'hard boiled' because they overlook the fact that human beings are struggling for their consciences are simply unrealistic.

Gunnar Myrdal

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

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.