Realist Quotes

Realist Quote of the day

In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.

The visionary is the only realist.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.

A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.

Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.

I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

Im a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.

World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.

One cannot afford to be a realist.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?

A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.