Realist Quotes

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

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.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

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.

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

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

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

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.

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.

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.

Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

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

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

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.

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

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

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

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.