Realistic Quotes

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That’s very important.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocracy

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

I don't believe [monogamy] is realistic. But, I believe that we, as people, have the power to make it happen.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

People have to be realistic, or the dream just drags on.

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.

True hope is cleareyed. It sees all the difficulties that exist and all the potential for failure, but through that carves a realistic path to a better future.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

Realistic thinking is based on what others think is possible-but they are not you and have no way of knowing your potential and purposes

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.

Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need.

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

Winning a championship is now a legitimate and realistic goal.

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

We cannot all be masters.

There is no such thing as something for nothing.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.