Joan Cusack

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

American Actress

Sonia Sotomayor

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

American Judge

Nithya Menen

Journalism is not what it used to be. I thought it was an important job, but it is not. I'm idealistic, and it pretty much upsets me that negativity sells and that even if I wanted to tell the truth, I wouldn't be able to if my boss does not okay it.

Indian Actress

Frank Gehry

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

American Architect

Woodrow Wilson

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

American President

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

German Poet

Roy Choi

I've got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life.

South Korean Chef

Paul Nurse

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

British Scientist

Randeep Hooda

Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

Indian Actor

John Zorn

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

American Composer

Describes a view that might ignore practical limitations in favor of hopeful outcomes.

Unrealistic Optimism

May imply a lack of experience or understanding of the complexities of real life.

Naive Enthusiasm

Often associated with the desire to make the world better.

Positive Change

Highlights someone's dedication to ethics or morality, often in public service.

Moral Aspiration

Suggest that goals are pursued for the greater good, not personal gain.

Noble Intent

Being idealistic can motivate but may need grounding in practical methods.

Cautious Inspiration

 who is beautiful but doesn't want to play with the other kids. And she has friends like the green robots that are really friendly but super messy. And she has friends like Linux the penguin who's really ruthlessly efficient, but somewhat hard to understand. And idealistic foxes, and so on. In Ruby's world, you learn technology through play.

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 definition very idealistic it's the liberation of people and people's based on structural transformation which is a fantastic definition with this idea that we'd actually changed the global economy to help the poorest to the poor and I think it's really a reproach to us that we've moved away from thinking that big

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 They're incredibly pragmatic, they're hopeful and they're determined. They think they're going to change the world, in fact, I believe they're going to do it. They might be a little bit idealistic sometimes, but in just the last several years, we've seen millennials overtake Generation X

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 cocktail party they usually look at me with a mildly incredulous look on their face I try to keep my own face somewhat dispassionate now a lot of people think that this is kind of idealistic ridiculous maybe even hopeless but I just want to talk to you a little bit

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 and that sort of hippie philosophy of dreaming of a more connected world -- it felt so idealistic and "how could anyone think badly about that?" And what you're saying is that, actually, millions of people today feel that that isn't just silly;

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 What if each of us gave more to the world than we took from it? Everything would change. Now cynics might say that sounds too idealistic, but cynics don't create the future. And though I've learned the folly of unbridled optimism,

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 invention of humanity, kind of on a par with the Gutenberg press, for example. It's the bringer of knowledge to all. It's the connector of all. And it's viewed in those sort of idealistic terms. And from that lens,

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 and I was pretty lost in my world. I was really idealistic. These easy ideas to complex questions are very appealing when you are emotionally vulnerable. What happens is that circular logic takes over.

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 work that we've been doing it doesn't matter where on the scale of pragmatic to idealistic you fall there are reasons to protect bird our future our lives are

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 He and I were both part of a generation of idealistic young people, whose life has been ignited by the freedom fire

Idealistic