Being a realist helps protect me from disappointment in both my business and personal life. — Rachael Leigh Cook Copy Share Image
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Someone told me I’m a cynical fatalist but I prefer the term realist.” — Wade Kelly Copy Share Image
A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war… — Michael Shaara Copy Share Image
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist. — Jean Alesi Copy Share Image
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit reality, because life is not going to cooperate. Maybe this makes… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation;… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Where the realist would say, "One day Gregor Samsa woke up to the realization that he was like a cockroach," the expressionist… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I think I'm a realist in terms of what I've gotten from darts. I never expected to get anything out of it… — John Part Copy Share Image
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas,… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
As to the "traditional filler of twenty-first century realist fiction," maybe that is something I avoid. I don't relate to standard psychologizing… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I love musicals but it's very, very different. It's really just a different form than serious drama, and has very different rules… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst. — Telly Savalas Copy Share Image
I'm a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward. — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
Fighting the best guys in the division is absolutely what I want, but at the same time I'm a realist. — Brad Tavares Copy Share Image
The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“I have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist.” — John Barth Copy Share Image
I'm always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving. — Arjen Robben Copy Share Image
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist! — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. — David Eddings Copy Share Image
