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Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist. -- Audrey Hepburn
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. -- Tom Hiddleston
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -- William Arthur Ward
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. -- Eric Hoffer
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible. -- Hakim Bey
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. -- Akshay Kumar
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. -- Igor Babailov
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. -- John Barth
If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist. -- John Barth
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. -- Sydney J. Harris
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. -- Bertolt Brecht
I don't personally consider myself Dr. Doom. I call myself Dr. Realist, even though it's less exciting and more boring than being called Dr. Doom. If you are consistently saying 'the world is going to end,' who is going to listen to you? -- Nouriel Roubini
Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens is that the mind fills in what's missing . . . Painting is a way of making you see what I saw. -- Alex Katz
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers -- Paul Wellstone
Realists do not fear the results of their study. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist. -- Soe Hok Gie
In order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles. -- David Ben-Gurion
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety. -- Jessica Chastain
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist! -- Lori Greiner
As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
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
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. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour! -- Pope Francis
I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else. -- Jonathan Maberry
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. -- Tichina Arnold
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. -- Benjamin Graham
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds. -- Alan Lightman
The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain. -- Ray Bradbury
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept. -- Satish Kumar
I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist. -- Adam Carolla
I am a mixture of idealist and realist. -- Roger Moore
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist. -- David Ben-Gurion
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. -- David Ben-Gurion
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. -- Margaret Atwood
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. -- Arthur Symons
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. -- James Earl Jones
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist. -- Gore Vidal
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist. -- Joan Baez
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will. -- Octavia Spencer
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. -- Warren Rudman
You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple. -- Jason T. Smith
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. -- Studs Terkel
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. -- Mike Ditka
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. -- Todd Gitlin
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist. -- Beau Willimon
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history. -- Joyce Carol Oates
When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles. -- Conor Oberst
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. -- Cameron Sinclair
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. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion. -- William Ernest Henley
I am indeed a moral realist. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
The visionary is the only realist. -- Federico Fellini
Cynical is a fool's word for realist. -- Paul Christopher
The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist. -- Marty Liquori
One cannot afford to be a realist. -- Albert Bandura
I am a realist. I expect miracles. -- Wayne Dyer
A realist is a slave to reality. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I'm a realist and I always have been. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I like to think I'm some savage realist. -- Nick Frost
I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves. -- Adam Dunn
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist. -- Elisabeth Rohm
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. -- Cameron Sinclair
It always felt like I had to be a realist. -- Jack Tatum
In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist. -- Nancy Spain
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. -- H. C. Bailey
Empty threats are for dreamers. And I fancy myself a realist. -- Natalya Vorobyova
I'm a realist, but sometimes I find myself floating in fantasy. -- Brittany Perloff
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization. -- Leni Zumas
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist. -- Robert Charles Wilson
The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay. -- Robert Breault
A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist. -- Christina Stead
In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out. -- Pierre Trudeau
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there. -- Daniel Woodrell
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. -- Benjamin Graham
Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter. -- Jo Walton
I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret. -- Margaret George
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. -- Peter Drucker
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did. -- Benjamin Disraeli
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. -- Michel Houellebecq
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist. -- David Eddings
The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality. -- Mason Cooley
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. -- George Carlin
In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination. -- Robert Breault
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out. -- Phyllis Bottome
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist. -- Bill Maher
Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language. -- Igor Babailov
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.' -- Jessica Chastain
I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is. -- Olga Korbut
There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid. -- Dean Koontz
The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict. -- Frank Bruno
I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist. -- Morgan Spurlock
I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't. -- Amy Winehouse
You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist. -- Ransom Riggs
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom. -- William C. Wright
I am now a decided non-naturalist realist. And today we may even speak of a trend towards non-naturalist moral realism. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience. -- Frances Parkinson Keyes
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
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist. -- Ava DuVernay
The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know. -- John Hurt
I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional. -- Wolfgang Petersen
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. -- Clay Aiken
I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters. -- Sandrine Bonnaire
Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters -- Sandrine Bonnaire
I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist. -- Andre Kertesz
He was a romantic in his own harsh way"yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all. -- Stephen King
How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations. -- Wallace Stevens
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. -- Julien Benda
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real. -- Chuck Close
It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation. -- Karen Russell
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances. -- Lee Kuan Yew
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top."). -- Terry Pratchett

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