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If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.
The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.
A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?
One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'
It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission.
Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.
Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.
It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as one might think.
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an eternal pessimist regarding politics.
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.
When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's rights movement, you name it.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.
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.
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life, that '60s sense of optimism and hope.