Shahid Afridi Quotes

I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

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!

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

I'm always being realistic.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

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

Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.

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

People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this sordid earth.

What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now.

I'm not selling a dream; I'm not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing.

You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.

You got to keep your feet on the ground, and it is what it is.

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

I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

People have to be realistic, or the dream just drags on.

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

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.