Blase J. Cupich Quotes

We need realism to deal with reality.

That era of designers being away with the fairies is gone... You've got to live in the real world.

Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

Laughter is such a healing thing, and through laughter, we find commonalities with each other. There's a lot of separation in the world, and by creating more things to laugh at, we can create a common ground for open discussion.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

Become reality driven. Don’t kid yourself or others.

I learned over time that you do not go for the perfect solution….You do what is doable and then you want to try and do a little bit more.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

I am not that big of a fantasy person. I prefer myself to think of living in the real world.

Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.

I don't deal with hypotheticals. I deal with reality.

I'm always the "less is more" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

You can do anything you want, as long as it works.

Politics is about realities, not logic.

Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.