I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore. — Moby Copy Share Image
“A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.” — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.” — J.M. Richards Copy Share Image
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety. — Jessica Chastain 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
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
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us… — Tzipi Livni Copy Share Image
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.” — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“But he could not help it. No one can help it. One is a realist. One has put up with it all… — Halldor Laxness 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
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
[ 'American Dream' ] probably will [go] somewhere in Europe. You get 3000 entries [to] Sundance, and how many movies get [screened]?… — Janusz Kaminski 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
When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now --… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue… — Teresa Heinz 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
I'm always a realist, and I know the world of football is fast-moving. — Arjen Robben Copy Share Image
“You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you.” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
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 have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist.” — John Barth 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'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. — Tom Hiddleston 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
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A state department official once told me this about the role of the president. He said: "We wage war for realist reasons,… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
![“[ 'American Dream' ] probably will [go] somewhere in Europe. You get 3000 entries [to] Sundance, and how many movies get [screened]? So, I'm a realist. I'm very much realistic in terms of if this movie will be released in the States. Probably not.” quote by Janusz Kaminski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/559/janusz-kaminski-23057_american-dream_american-dream-probably-will-go-somewher_1336172.jpg)
