Sentence examples for needed to be realistic from inspiring English sources

They needed to be realistic, stay patient and get serious in 2006.

As Long told the Guardian in early January, the project needed to be realistic to succeed.

Robert Owens, president of the Owens Group, an insurance agency in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., said people needed to be realistic about the replacement value of their personal property.

In fact, Jets Coach Al Groh, then a defensive assistant who hadn't seen him play, counseled him that he needed to be realistic in deciding whether to retire.

Dale A. Brill, the chairman of the governor's task force and a "liberal arts guy," said universities needed to be realistic.

Mr. Meuser, and others like him, would like to run down another big deal, but he said he thought horsemen needed to be realistic about their expectations.

"We need to be realistic.

Expectations need to be realistic.

"We need to be realistic," Fletcher added.

"I need to be realistic," Woods said.

But we need to be realistic.