Organizations relying upon young, idealistic, and mission-driven people to work at below-market compensation over the long-term will burn them out and find the best people leaving over time.
Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
When you are very idealistic, but caught in a world which is all about business, it creates anguish.
I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.
For so long, I have been an outsider because of my size. And I think that fashion has always, in some way, catered to celebrities or to a thinner idealistic model.
Good teachers have joined Presidency from different parts of the country and even abroad. We have got idealistic teachers, and we are relying on their idealism. But state universities pay their teachers less than the central ones. If salary is not on a par with central institutes, teachers would tend to leave for those places.
For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.
The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
